Adam McOmber is the author of The White Forest: A Novel (Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, September 2012). He is also the author of the short story collection This New and Poisonous Air (BOA Editions 2011). He teaches literature and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago where he is also the associate editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika. His fiction has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Third Coast, and The Fairy Tale Review.