Wells Tower is the author of the short story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. His short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He is the recipient the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, a National Magazine Award for Fiction, and was also included in the New Yorker’s list of the twenty promising fiction writers under the age of forty.