Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the novel, How High We Go in the Dark, a national bestseller and The New York Times Editors’ Choice, as well as the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone. His work has been a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and the Locus Award for first novel, shortlisted for The Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has appeared widely in journals such as The Iowa Review, Tin House, and Conjunctions. He is an associate professor at St. Olaf College and a faculty member of the Rainier Writers Workshop MFA Low-Residency Program.