Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels “The Love Song of Jonny Valentine” (Free Press, Feb. 2013) and “Kapitoil” (Harper Perennial) and is the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize runner-up, and a finalist for the 2011 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, McSweeney’s, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.