Steve Almond
Steve Almond is the author of the story collections
God Bless America, winner of the 2012
Paterson Fiction Prize,
The Evil B.B. Chow, and
My Life in Heavy Metal; the novel
Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott); and the nonfiction books
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life,
(Not That You Asked), and
Candyfreak.
His stories have appeared in
Playboy,
Zoetrope,
Ploughshares, and
Southern Review among other magazines, and have been reprinted in
Best American Short Stories and
The Pushcart Prize. He lives outside Boston.