Josip Novakovich came from Croatia to the United States at the age of twenty. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram Merrill award, a Vogelstein fellowship, and the Cohen/Ploughshares award. His latest book Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys is forthcoming from White Pine Press.