Daniel Wallace is an author and teacher. He is a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Creative Writing Program.Wallace's essays and interviews have been published in The Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, and Our State magazine, where he was, for a short time, the barbecue critic. His short stories have appeared in over fifty magazines and periodicals, including Tin House, One Story, Glimmer Train, and The Georgia Review. His stories have been collected in Best American Short Stories, and Best Stories from the South. first novel, "Big Fish," was published in 1998, and he has since published five more. His children’s book, "The Cat's Pajamas," was published in 2014. His novels have been translated into over three-dozen languages.Wallace received the 2009 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for best fiction published in North Carolina and the 2019 Harper Lee Award.