Fiction — Dan Josefson (Whiting Award 2015)

Dan Josefson is an American writer born on March 8, 1974, in Mount Kisco, New York, who grew up in Chappaqua. He graduated from Williams College with a BA and earned an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His debut novel That's Not a Feeling (2012), set in a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Booklist best book of 2012, and contributed to his 2015 Whiting Award in fiction; he lives in New York City.