James Hannaham received a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. He has written for The Village Voice, Salon, Spin, Interview, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, and many others. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Nerve, Fresh Men, and Open City.  Currently an instructor of English and Creative Writing at the Pratt Institute and The New School, he has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, The Blue Mountain Center and Chateau de Lavigny, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Literature.