James Boice was born in California in 1982, raised in northern Virginia, and currently lives near Boston. He was featured in the "McSweeney's" New Writers Issue in 2003. His work has also appeared in "Fiction, Like Water Burning", and "The Shore", among other publications. "MVP" is his first novel. An excerpt appeared in "Esquire", which deemed him the "New Voice" and his work "A Story Unlike Anything You've Read Before."