Introduction to Bridges: A Fiction Folio Guest Edited by Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon

Born and raised in Florida, Laura van den Berg is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, which was one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next novel, Florida Diary, is forthcoming from FSG.

Paul Yoon is the author of four works of fiction, including Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award, and Run Me to Earth, which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. In 2021, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is based in New York, and his new book, The Hive and the Honey, will be published by Marysue Rucci Books in the fall of 2023.