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Dean Bakopoulos received his BA from the University of Michigan and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first novel, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon, was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Public Library “Book to Remember.” It has been translated in five foreign editions and is being developed as a television series by Lionsgate. His second novel, My American Unhappiness, was published this summer by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The winner of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Dean is now on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University, where he teaches fiction, nonfiction, and environmental literature. Previously, he has taught at UW-Madison and has been a guest lecturer at Michigan, Cornell, and other colleges and universities. He has published essays, stories, and criticism in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Progressive, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Zoetrope, Five Chapters, Avery, and Real Simple. He is a writer-in-residence at Alley Stage in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, which has produced several his plays and monologues.