He received a Bachelors in Biology from Harvard in 1998, and his M.D. from UCSF in 2004. A fiction writer, he is the author of two novels, The Piano Tuner and A Far Country, and his short stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s and Lapham’s Quarterly. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2015, he served as Visiting Professor in Creative Writing, teaching the Stanford Stegner Fiction Workshop.