Josh Weil is the author of “The New Valley,” a collection of novellas.
“Weil meticulously imagines people and their histories, and presents them as a product of their places. This is perhaps the hardest thing for a fiction writer of any age, working in any form, to accomplish,” raved the New York Times.
A New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, Weil and “The New Valley” were also honored with a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation.
Weil’s short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, American Short Fiction, Narrative and Glimmer Train, among other journals. He has written non-fiction for The New York Times and Poets & Writers.
Since earning his MFA from Columbia University, he has received a Fulbright grant, a Writer’s Center Emerging Writer Fellowship, the Dana Award in Portfolio and fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.
As the 2009 Tickner Fellow, Weil is the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore, where he is at work on a novel.
Visit him online at www.joshweil.com.
