Alexan­der Mak­sik is the author of You Deserve Noth­ing, a New York Times and IndieBound best­seller; A Mark­er to Mea­sure Drift, a New York Times Notable Book; and Shel­ter in Place, a best book of the year in the Guardian and the San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle. He is the recip­i­ent of a Guggen­heim Fel­low­ship, a Push­cart Prize, and the Andrew Lytle Prize, as well as fel­low­ships from the Tru­man Capote Lit­er­ary Trust and the Cor­po­ra­tion of Yaddo.