Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in BOMB, Tin House, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the author of two story collections—Farthest South and The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories—for which he has been named finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; the John Leonard Prize, and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award; was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; and won the Minnesota Book Award. His first novel, North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther has been Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Award. Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

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