Liam Callanan's most recent novel, All Saints, was named a Target Bookmarked Book Club Breakout pick; his previous novel, The Cloud Atlas, was a finalist for the Edgar Award. He’s a frequent essayist for local and national public radio, and has written for Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Liam’s also the founder and executive producer of the nationwide Poetry Everywhere animated film project (poetryeverywhere.org). Past director of the Ph.D. program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee and current chair of its Department of English, Liam earned his MFA from George Mason University, his MA at Georgetown and his BA at Yale.