Robert Cohen is the author of three previous novels, "The Organ Builder, The Here and Now, "and "Inspired Sleep, " and a collection of short stories"." Winner of a Lila Atcheston Wallace -"Reader's Digest" Writers Award, the Ribalow Prize, The Pushcart Prize, and a Whiting Award, he has published short fiction in a variety of publications -- including "Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review" and "Ploughshares." He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Harvard University, and Middlebury College. He lives in Vermont.