Luke Mogelson

Luke Mogelson is currently based in Istanbul, reporting on the on-going battle for Mosul. He's a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. His writing has also appeared in GQ and The New Republic, and stories from the collection have been published in different form in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, and The Kenyon Review. In 2011, he was awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship for fiction at Stanford University (though he declined it, in order to move to Afghanistan). Mogelson served as a medic in the 69th Infantry, New York Army National Guard, from 2007 to 2010.