RON CURRIE

is the author of five novels. His work has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Alex Award from the American Library Association, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in the Best American Sportswriting, Best American Essays, and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series EXTRAPOLATIONS and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. His next novel, the first in a trilogy about a Franco-American family in central Maine, will be published by Putnam in 2025. He lives in Portland, Maine and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.