Richard Lange’s stories have appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review, and Best American Mystery Stories, and as part of the Atlantic Monthly’s Fiction for Kindle series. He is the author of the collection Dead Boys and the novels This Wicked World and Angel Baby, which won the Hammett Prize. His new collection, Sweet Nothing, will be released in February 2015 by Mulholland/Little, Brown. He received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Guggenheim Fellow.