Tony Earley (fiction) is the author of a story collection, Here We Are in Paradise, which won him recognition from Granta and the New Yorker as one of America’s best young fiction writers, and a novel, Jim the Boy. A collection of personal essays, Somehow Form a Family, was published by Algonquin in 2001. His work has appeared in the Oxford American, Harper’s, Esquire, and elsewhere. He is the Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. [Main faculty page]