Lewis Buzbee is the author of two books of nonfiction, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop and Blackboard (Graywolf); three award-winning novels for younger readers, Steinbeck’s Ghost, The Haunting of Charles Dickens, and Bridge of Time (Feiwel and Friends); an adult novel, Fliegelman’s Desire (Ballantine); a collection of stories, After the Gold Rush (Tupelo); and a novella, First to Leave Before the Sun (Donkey Hotel). His essays, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in Lit Hub, GQ, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, ZYZZYVA, Black Warrior Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.