Jason Brown grew up in Maine. He was a Stegner Fellow and Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Oregon. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, NPR's Selected Shorts, The Missouri Review, and other places. He has published two story collections, Driving the Heart (1999) and Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work (2007).