Alek­san­dar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a final­ist for the 2008 Nation­al Book Award and the Nation­al Book Crit­ics Cir­cle Award, and three books of short sto­ries: The Ques­tion of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a final­ist for the Nation­al Book Crit­ics Cir­cle Award; and Love and Obsta­cles. He was the recip­i­ent of a 2003 Guggen­heim Fel­low­ship and a ​“genius grant” from the MacArthur Foun­da­tion, and the 2020 Dos Pas­sos Prize. He lives in Chicago.