Roy Kesey’s latest book is the novel Pacazo, winner of Word Riot’s 2012 Paula Anderson Book Award. His next book, a collection called Any Deadly Thing, will be published by Dzanc Books in February 2013. He has won two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Fiction, and a 2010 prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife and children.