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Tim Johnston's newest novel is DISTANT SONS (2023, Algonquin). He is also the author of THE CURRENT (2019, Algonquin), the New York Time's bestselling novel DESCENT (2015, Algonquin), the story collection IRISH GIRL (2009, UNT Press), and the YA novel NEVER SO GREEN (2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux). A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie National bestseller, DESCENT has been published internationally and optioned for film. Also optioned for film, THE CURRENT won the Midland Authors 2020 Adult Fiction Award. The stories of IRISH GIRL have won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Tim holds degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was a carpenter for most of his adult life. He is the recipient of the 2015 Iowa Author Award, and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa. For more, please go to www.timjohnston.net. On Facebook: TimJohnston.Writer
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