Dan Pope has published short stories in" Postroad", "McSweeney s", "Crazyhorse", "Shenandoah", "Gettysburg Review", "Witness", the "Iowa Review", and many others. He graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2002, which he attended on a Truman Capote fellowship, and where he won the Glenn Schaeffer Award and" "the John Leggett Prairie Lights Fiction Prize. The author of "In the Cherry Tree", Pope lives in Connecticut.