Jason Brown, born in Maine, is the author of several short story collections, including A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (2019), which won an Independent Publisher Book Award and the Maine Book Award/Maine Literary Award. Several of his stories have been performed as part of NPR’s Selected Shorts, and his work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories. Brown earned his MFA from Cornell University and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon.