Teddy Wayne, the author of "Loner", "The Love Song of Jonny Valentine", and "Kapitoil", is the winner of a Whiting Writers Award and an NEA Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He writes regularly for "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", "Vanity Fair", " McSweeney s", and elsewhere. He lives in New York.