D. Wystan Owen is the author of Other People's Love Affairs: Stories (Algonquin Books), named a Best Book of 2018 by Amazon and The Washington Independent Review of Books, and a Best ‘Under-Read’ Book of the Decade by Lithub. His fiction and essays have appeared in A Public Space, The American Scholar, LitHub, and elsewhere. A former Deputy Editor of The Threepenny Review, and Co-Founder / Publisher of The Bare Life Review, he has taught graduate level fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first novel, A Disorderly House, is in progress.