Reginald McKnight is a short story writer and novelist. He has won the O. Henry Award, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the Whiting Award, among others. He is the author of He Sleeps, Moustapha's Eclipse, I Get on the Bus, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, and White Boys. McKnight is currently the Hamilton Holmes Professor of English at the University of Georgia in Athens. (Photo credit: Ari Mark)