Zachary C. Solomon is from Mia­mi, Flori­da. He received an MFA from Brook­lyn Col­lege, where he was a Tru­man Capote fel­low. He lives with his wife, the nov­el­ist Mandy Berman, and their two chil­dren in New York’s Hud­son Val­ley. A Bru­tal Design is his first novel.