Ed Park is the author of the novel Personal Days (Random House), which was named one of Time‘s top 10 fiction books of 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. He is a founding editor of The Believer and is executive editor at Penguin Press. Buffalo Noir, co-edited with Brigid Hughes, is out now. His two forthcoming books are Same Bed, Different Dreams (a novel) and An Oral History of Atlantis (stories).