Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston is the internationally bestselling author of the novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me Like This and the award-winning Corpus Christi: Stories, as well as the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Paris Review, Thrasher Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Sunday Times Short Story Award, he was born and raised in Texas and is the director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.