The White Spot

Jonathan Blum is the author of Last Word (Rescue Press, 2013), a novella, which was named one of the best books of the year by Iowa Public Radio. His story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, is forthcoming from Rescue Press. He is the recipient of a 2016 Hawthornden fellowship in Scotland and was a guest writer at the 2016 Tianjin Binhai New Area International Writing Program in China. His short stories have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Playboy, and Sonora Review. He lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches fiction writing workshops.