Forrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry, translation, fiction, and essays, including Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, and Core Samples from the World, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. A US Artists Rockefeller fellow, Gander serves as the A. K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University and has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim, Howard, and the Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. Born in the Mojave Desert and raised, for the most part, in Virginia, he currently lives in California.