Joe Dun­thorne is the author of The Adul­ter­ants, O Pos­i­tive: Poems, Wild Aban­don, and Sub­ma­rine, which was trans­lat­ed into fif­teen lan­guages and made into an award-win­ning film. His work has been pub­lished in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Lon­don Review of Books, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Gran­ta, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. He was born in Wales and lives in London.