Brendan Jones is from Sitka, Alaska, where he commercial fishes and works on restoring his home, a World War II tugboat. He founded Greensaw Design & Build, a Philadelphia-based company specializing in building with reclaimed material. He graduated from Oxford University, and has published pieces in Fine Woodworking, Narrative, and The Huffington Post, and recorded commentaries with NPR. He is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. His novel, The Alaskan Laundry, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Spring 2015.