Kevin Moffett is the author of two short story collections, the novel Only Son, and The Silent History, a narrative app for mobile devices. His work has been awarded the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and a Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment of the Arts. A frequent contributor to McSweeney’s, his stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, the Harvard Review, American Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune, The Believer, A Public Space, and in four editions of The Best American Short Stories. He teaches in the Creative Writing program at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville.

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