William Overstreet

WILLIAM OVERSTREET lives in Western Massachusetts. Before that, he spent four years in Fort Defiance, Arizona, within the Navajo Nation. He has written extensively on international politics and economics, most recently for the Congressional Quarterly Press imprint, but has also published short fiction as well as essays on Navajo ceremonialism ("The Navajo Nightway and the Western Gaze," in American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, published by Duke University Press) and on the intersection of politics and religion in India (in The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, published by CQ Press). He holds degrees from three universities, Cornell (B.S.), the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (M.F.A.), and Binghamton University (Ph.D.). Halley’s Gathering is his first novel.