David Burr Gerrard received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. His first novel, Short Century, was published in 2014, and his work has appeared in The Awl, the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, Guernica, and other publications. He teaches fiction writing at the New School, Manhattanville College, the 92nd Street Y, and the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. He lives with his wife in Queens, New York.