Joe Meno
JOE MENO is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in Chicago. He is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the best-selling author of nine novels and two short story collections, including Marvel and a Wonder, Hairstyles of the Damned, and The Boy Detective Fails. His nonfiction book on US asylum, Between Everything and Nothing, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of the Year. Meno is a professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Columbia College Chicago.