Tamas Dobozy is the author of Siege 13. He has published over fifty works of short fiction in such journals as Granta, AGNI, Fiction, and One Story. The story “The Restoration of the Villa Where Tíbor Kálmán Once Lived,” included in Seige 13, received a PEN/O. Henry Prize. Dobozy was awarded the inaugural Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing in New York University in 2009 and lives in Kitchener, Ontario.