Alec Michod is the author of The White City, a novel. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Ben Marcus’s Smallwork, Conjunctions, The Rumpus, and The Believer. He’s been a visiting writer at New York University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. The Chicago Tribune recently published an excerpt from his new novel.