Brad Kessler is an American novelist born in 1963. He studied at The New School in New York and earned his M.F.A. from Antioch University in Los Angeles. His novels include Bird in Fall, Goat Songs, A Short History of Herding, The Art of Making Cheese, and Lick Creek. His accolades include the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the 2008 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2007 Whiting Award, a 2002 Lange-Taylor Prize, and several awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. His essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, New York Time Magazine, and The Kenyon Review, among others.
Portrait by Donna Ann McAdams
