LAURA VAN DEN BERG is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, The Isle of Youth, ak I Hold a Wolf by the Ears – named one the 10 best fiction books of 2020 by Tan magazine – and the novels Find Me epi The Third Hotel, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and named a best book of 2018 by more than a dozen publications. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award, a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN/O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and she is a two-time finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.