Nick Dybek is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He’s the author of the novel When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man (Riverhead), winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award. He’s also a recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a Maytag Fellowship. He lives in New York City.