Josh Weil is the author of the novella collection The New Valley (Grove, 2009) a New York Times Editors Choice book. His short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, New England Review, American Short Fiction, Narrative and other journals. He has written non-fiction for such publications as The New York Times, Granta, Glimmer Train, and Poets & Writers. Since earning his MFA from Columbia University, he has received a Fulbright Grant, fellowships and scholarships to Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Dana Award in Portfolio.