Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and three previous story collections. His stories are published regularly in such magazines as * The New Yorker, The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story, Playboy,and Vice,among others. "The Netherlands Lives with Water," from this c...

Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and three previous story collections. His stories are published regularly in such magazines as * The New Yorker, The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story, Playboy,and Vice,among others. "The Netherlands Lives with Water," from this collection, appears in The * Best American Short Stories 2010. "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You," also from this collection, appears in PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011. He lives with his wife and their three children in Williamstown, Massachusetts.