William Brewer’s debut novel, "The Red Arrow," will be published by Knopf in May 2022. His first book, "I Know Your Kind," was a winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in A Public Space, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Sewanee Review, and other journals. Formerly a Stegner Fellow, he’s currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. He lives in Oakland.