Adam Berlin is the author of the novels Both Members of the Club (Texas Review Press/Clay Reynolds Prize), The Number of Missing (Spuyten Duyvil), Belmondo Style (St. Martin’s Press/The Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award) and Headlock (Algonquin Books), and the story/flash collection All Around They’re Taking Down the Lights (Livingston Press/Tartt First Fiction Award). He teaches writing at CUNY and co-edits the litmag J Journal.