John McNally

John McNally is the author of three novels, After the Workshop, The Book of Ralph, and America’s Report Card, and two story collections, Troublemakers (Iowa, 2000) and Ghosts of Chicago. He has edited six anthologies, including When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School and Humor Me: An Anthology of Humor by Writers of Color (Iowa, 2002). His fiction, book reviews, and essays have appeared in more than a hundred publications, including the Washington Post, the Sun, and Open City, and he is a contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review. A native of Chicago’s southwest side, he is an associate professor of English at Wake Forest University.