Douglas Bauer’s most recent novel, The Beckoning World, was a Must Read selection of the Massachusetts Library Association and a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. He is the author of three previous novels —
Dexterity; The Very Air and The Book of Famous Iowans — and three works of non-fiction — Prairie City Iowa: Three Seasons at Home; The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft, and What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death, which won the PEN/New England Award in Non-Fiction. He is also the editor of the anthologies, Prime Times: Writers on Their Favorite TV Shows and Death by Pad Thai and Other Unforgettable Meals.
His numerous essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in Esquire, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review,
The Los Angeles Book Review, Agni, Cutleaf, and other publications.
He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
in both fiction and creative non-fiction.
He lives in Cambridge, MA
My conversation with Tess Callahan in her Writers at the Well feature on Substack.
Photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz