David Means
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David Means

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David Means is the internationally acclaimed author of six short-story collections, including INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FUNERAL, THE SPOT (a New York Times notable book of the year), ASSORTED FIRE EVENTS (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction), and THE SECRET, and the novel HYSTOPIA (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous other publications. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Means lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.
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