Brendan Short

Brendan Short is the author of the novel "Dream City," which has been called "powerful" (Chicago Magazine), "terrific" (Austin American-Statesman), "complex" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "an impressively mature first effort...Highly recommended" (Library Journal). According to the Oklahoma Gazette, "It's rare that a novel can affect and haunt the reader to a marked degree, but this one does."

Brendan is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His stories and poems have appeared in several literary journals, including The Literary Review and River Styx. A former writer-in-residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., he currently lives in the Chicago area. Please visit his website, www.brendanshort.net.