Speaker Biographies

Josh Weil

Josh Weil was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of rural Virginia, to which he returned to write the novellas in his first book, The New Valley (Grove, June 2009). His short fiction has been published in Granta, StoryQuarterly, New England Review, Narrative and other journals. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times and written for Guernica, Orion, and Nylon Magazine. Since earning his MFA from Columbia University, he has received a Fulbright Grant, scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Dana Award in Portfolio. He currently divides his time between New York City and a cabin in southwestern Virginia, where he is at work on a novel.

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