About the Author
M.O. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of the novels My Sunshine Away and The Big Door Prize, and his stories and essays have appeared the New York Times, Oxford American, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, and Best New American Voices, among others. He currently lives in New Orleans, LA, where he directs the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans.