Phil Klay
Phil Klay is an author and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His first book, Redeployment, received the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. His novel Missionaries was named one of the Wall Street Journal's ten best books of 2020, and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year. He has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and other places. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University.