Baird Harper

Baird Harper's fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train , Tin House , StoryQuarterly , and The Chicago Tribune , among other publications, and has been anthologized in New Stories from the Midwest, 2015 ; 40 Years of CutBank , Stories ; and twice in Best New American Voices. The recipient of the 2014 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune 's Nelson Algren Award, and the James Jones Short Story Award, Harper lives in Oak Park with his wife and two kids, and he teaches creative...See more

Baird Harper's fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train , Tin House , StoryQuarterly , and The Chicago Tribune , among other publications, and has been anthologized in New Stories from the Midwest, 2015 ; 40 Years of CutBank , Stories ; and twice in Best New American Voices. The recipient of the 2014 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune 's Nelson Algren Award, and the James Jones Short Story Award, Harper lives in Oak Park with his wife and two kids, and he teaches creative writing at Loyola University and the University of Chicago. Red Light Run is his first novel. See less