Jedediah Berry

Jedediah Berry’s debut novel, The Manual of Detection (The Penguin Press), received the William L. Crawford Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and was a finalist for the Strand Critics Award, a Locus Award, and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Berry’s short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in journals and anthologies including Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, Chicago Review, Fairy Tale Review, Best New American Voices, and Best American Fantasy. He has worked as an editor at Small Beer Press, and is currently writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut.