Joe Meno

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is a winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Great Lakes Book Award and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the author of five novels and two short-story collections, including Hairstyles of the Damned, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, and Demons in the Spring. His short fiction has been published in One Story, McSweeney’s, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, and Gulf Coast and broadcast on NPR. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and Chicago Magazine. He is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing department at Columbia College Chicago.