Mark Doten is the author of the novel The Infernal. In 2017 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He wrote the libretto for the oratorio The Source, which had its world premiere at BAM’s Next Wave Festival in October 2014 and was called a “21st-century masterpiece” by the New York Times. He is the literary fiction editor at Soho Press and teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.