Taylor Koekkoek received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University. His work has been supported by Oregon Literary Arts, the Breadloaf’s Writer’s Conference and has appeared in Paris Review, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. His short story collection, Thrillville, USA, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. He is the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.