Adam Ross, editor of Sewanee Review, is the author of Mr. Peanut, a 2010 New York Times Notable Book, named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Philadel­phia Inquirer, The New Repub­lic, and The Econ­o­mist. Ladies and Gen­tle­men, his short story col­lec­tion, was included in Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2011 and included “In the Base­ment,” a final­ist for the 2012 BBC Inter­na­tional Story Award. Ross was a 2013–2014 Hod­der Fel­low at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity and the 2014 Mary Ellen von der Hey­den Fel­low in Fic­tion at The Amer­i­can Acad­emy in Berlin. Ross' non­fic­tion has also been pub­lished in The New York Times Book Review, The Daily Beast, The Nashville Scene, Tin House, and The Wall Street Jour­nal. His fic­tion has appeared in The Berlin Jour­nal, the Car­olina Quar­terly, and The Sun­day Times of Lon­don.