Nathan Deuel is the author of Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East, an Amazon Best Book of the Month. He has written essays, reviews, and short fiction for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, The Paris Review, and many others. He lives in Los Angeles, and teaches writing at UCLA Writing Programs and at the MFA in Creative Writing at Mount Saint Mary's University.  Presented in partnership with O, Miami Poetry Festival.