Answers from the Dark

by Adrian Van Young

Unknown Binding

About the author

Adrian Van Young has taught writing at Boston College, Boston University and Grub Street Writers, a creative writing non- profit. At various points in time, he has also taught writing and literature at the Calhoun School, 826 NYC and the Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School. In fall 2013, he will begin teaching creative writing and composition at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. He received his B.A. in English from Vassar College, and his MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where he formerly taught as well. In 2008, he was the recipient of a Henfield Foundation Prize and was nominated by Columbia's faculty for inclusion in the Best New American Voices 2010 Anthology.

The Man Who Noticed Everything, his first book of fiction, won Black Lawrence Press' 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award, and is available for purchase from Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books, as of January 2013. He is currently in the midst of revising a historical novel based on the life of William H. Mumler, the father of spirit photography, and his clairvoyant wife, Hannah Mumler. His fiction and non- fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Lumina, Gigantic, Lacuna, Electric Literature, The American Reader, Black Warrior Review and The Believer. He lives in New Orleans, LA with his wife Darcy