Baird Harper grew up in Northfield, Illinois. For ten years he wrote the stories that eventually became his first book, Red Light Run, published by Scribner in 2017. Previously, his fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, Tin House, Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, The Chicago Tribune, Mid-American Review, Another Chicago Magazine, CutBank, Carve, and elsewhere. His stories have been anthologized in the 2009 and 2010 editions of Best New American Voices, New Stories from the Midwest 2016, and 40 Years of CutBank, and have won the 2014 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest and the 2010 Nelson Algren Award. Baird teaches writing at Loyola University and the University of Chicago. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois with his wife, Anastasia, and their two kids.
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