Shortlisted for Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, Steven Dunn is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press: WATER & POWER and POTTED MEAT, which was co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and finalist for a Colorado Book Award. Steven was born and raised in West Virginia, and after 10 years in the Navy he earned a BA in Creative Writing from University of Denver. He is currently an MFA candidate at Goddard College.