He was named as one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch” in 2010 and is currently at work on a second novel. Before coming to Wesleyan, he was an administrator at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass. On Sept. 24, he held a reading with visiting professor Tonya Foster at Russell House, where he shared an excerpt of a short story inspired by the writing of Halldór Laxness and his own love of Laxness’ home country, Iceland.