Laird Hunt is the award-winning author of novels and a collection of short works that intersect several genres, including experimental literature, exploratory fiction, literary noir, speculative fiction. In particular The Paris Stories (2000) and five novels published by Coffee House Press: The Impossibly (2001), Indiana, Indiana (2003), The Exquisite (2006), Ray of the Star (2009) and One Kind (2012), which was listed as a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was the winner of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. His latest novel Neverhome (Little Brown&Company, 2014), winner of the Book Award The Bridge 2015, has been translated and published in Italy by La Nave Di Teseo (2018). Hunt is currently professor in the Creative Writing program at Denver University, and lives with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, and his daughter in Colorado.