Douglas Trevor

Douglas Trevor (born 1969) is an American author and academic. He received the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his first book, a collection of stories entitled ''The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space'' (2005). His other books include ''The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England'' (2004), the novel ''Girls I Know'' (2013), which won the 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize, and most recently the short story collection ''The Book of Wonders.'' He teaches in the English Department and Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan, and is a former Director of the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Provided by Wikipedia