Jacob M. Appel is the author of many novels and short story collections, including The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, Scouting for the Reaper, Phoning Home, and Einstein’s Beach House. His fiction has appeared in many literary journals and has, among other honors, won both the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Competition. He has taught most recently at Brown University, the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and Yeshiva College in New York City, where he was the writer-in-residence. |