Ron Nyren’s novel The Book of Lost Light won Black Lawrence Press’s 2019 Big Moose Prize and was the finalist for both the 2018 AWP Award Series for the Novel and the 2020 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction. Ron’s short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Mississippi Review, and 100 Word Story, among other publications, and have been shortlisted for the O. Henry Awards and the Pushcart Prize. With spouse and writing partner Sarah Stone, Ron cowrote Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. Ron earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a major Hopwood award, the Farrar Prize in Playwriting, the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship, and the Andrea Beauchamp prize in short fiction. A former editor of Furious Fictions: The Magazine of Short-Short Stories, Ron is an instructor in fiction writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and a freelance writer specializing in architecture, urban design, sustainability, and affordable housing.