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Josh Weil
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About Josh
Josh Weil is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea (a New York Times Editor’s Choice and finalist for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize) and of the novella collection The New Valley (which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New Writers Award from the GLCA, and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation). Weil’s short fiction has appeared inGranta, Esquire, Tin House and One Story, among others, and he has written non-fiction for The New York Times, The Sun, and Poets & Writers. A recipient of fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the Dana Foundation, the Gilman School, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, the James Merrill House, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony, he has been the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University and the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. He lives with his family in the Sierra Nevada foothills where he is at work on a collection of stories.