Gary ZebrunGary Zebrun lives in Providence, Rhode Island. His first novel, Someone You Know, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. About his second novel, Only The Lonely, Kirkus wrote, "[It] captivates through the complexity and vulnerability of its charcters and the excellence of its prose, polished to a luminous transparency." He is a graduate of the Brown Graduate Writing Program and the recipient of Yaddo, MacDowell, and Breadloaf fellowships and taught creative writing at the University of Michigan. He has published poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose in the New York Times, the New Republic, Iowa Review, American Scholar, Sewanee Review, The Believer, The Common, and elsewhere. His manuscript of poetry has been a finalist twice for the Walt Whitman Poetry Prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. His most recent novel, Hart Island, was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for best LGBTQ fiction and Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Joseph Hansen Award in Crime Writing. Read More Read Less