TOM DRURY is the author of West of Loveland: A Novel (Grove Press) and five previous novels, including Pacific, longlisted for the National Book Award, and The End of Vandalism: A Novel, which was named one of the best books of the past 45 years by GQ in 2002. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, and A Public Space, and he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and MacDowell. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
