Andrew Krivák spent eight years preparing for the Jesuit priesthood before turning to writing. A graduate of St. John's College in Annapolis and the writing program at Columbia University, he also holds a PhD from Rutgers. His poetry appears in the chapbooks Islands (1999) and Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves (2021). His debut novel, The Sojourn (Bellevue Literary Press, 2011), was a National Book Award finalist and won both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the inaugural Chautauqua Prize. He edited The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, which won the Louis Martz Prize.
