David Shields is the author of twelve books, most recently Jeff, One Lonely Guy, which was co-written by Jeff Ragsdale and Michael Logan. He is a winner of multiple PEN awards and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington and a member of the faculty in Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA Program for Writers.