Jeremy M. Davies was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Knack Of Doing (David R. Godine, 2016), a collection of short fiction, as well as the novels Rose Alley (2009) and Fancy (2015). He is an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and sits on the advisory board of Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper’s Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and The White Review.