Josh Weil is the author of The New Valley (Grove/Atlantic 2009), a novella collection that won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; the New Writers Award from the GLCA; and a "5 Under 35" Award from the National Book Foundation. A New York Times Editors Choice, it was also shortlisted for the Library of Virginia's literary award in fiction.

Weil's other fiction has appeared in Granta, One Story, Agni, and American Short Fiction, and he has written non-fiction for The New York Times, Oxford American, and Poets & Writers. He is a recipient of fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the Dana Foundation, the Gilman School, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, the James Merrill House, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony.

Josh has taught at New York University, Brooklyn College, NYC's 92nd St. Y, been the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University, and, most recently, was the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Currently, he lives, mentors and writes in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. His new novel, The Great Glass Sea, will be published in late 2013.

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