Alec Michod is the author of The White City, a novel. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Ben Marcus’s Smallwork, Conjunctions, The Rumpus, and The Believer, and broadcast on television, most recently on History and AMC. The Chicago Tribune published Shoot the Freak, a short story. Alec has been nominated for an Emmy for his television work.