Ben Green­man is an edi­tor at The New York­er and the author of sev­er­al acclaimed works of fic­tion, includ­ing the short sto­ry col­lec­tions What He’s Poised to Do; Super­bad; Super­worse; and A Cir­cle Is a Bal­loon and Com­pass Both: Sto­ries about Human Love; and the nov­el Please Step Back. His fic­tion, essays, and jour­nal­ism have appeared in The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All Sto­ry, McSweeney’s, Opi­um, and else­where, and have been wide­ly anthol­o­gized. He lives in Brook­lyn with his wife and two children.