Tom Barbash graduated from Haverford College and earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded the James Michener Award. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient. His novel The Last Good Chance won the California Book Award, while his short story collection Stay Up With Me was nominated for the Folio Prize and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Jose Mercury News. His novel Dakota Winters (HarperCollins, 2018) captures 1980s New York with nuance and wit. His bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11 became a New York Times bestseller. His stories appear in Tin House, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been performed on NPR's Selected Shorts. He has held fellowships from MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and serves as host for prestigious literary events including The Commonwealth Club and Litquake.