John Mulvihill grew up in central Iowa but has lived in Wisconsin for the last twenty-five years. He has a BA from Grinnell College and a PhD from the University of Iowa. He has taught literature and writing at the University of Iowa, Drake University, UW-Milwaukee, and for the last eight years at UW-Madison. He lives in New Glarus with his wife Kathryn and daughter Vivienne. What he likes most about writing fiction is setting himself a puzzle—what is this about?—then trying to figure it out and being surprised by the answer.
