Tom Noyes’s most recent book is The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Novel (Slant), which won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Historical Fiction. Additionally, he has published three story collections: Come by Here: A Novella and Stories, which won the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize and an IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction; Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories (Dufour), which was runner-up for the AWP Prize in Short Fiction; and Behold Faith and Other Stories (Dufour), which was a finalist for the AWP Prize in Short Fiction, the Flannery O’Connor Award, and Stanford Libraries’ William Saroyan Prize. His books have garnered praise from The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, Necessary Fiction, and other venues.

Tom’s stories have been published widely in journals, including Ascent, Georgia Review, Image, The Kenyon Review, Laurel Review, Ploughshares, and Story. He’s earned degrees in writing from Houghton College, Wichita State University, and Ohio University. Currently, he directs the B.F.A. in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he also serves as Consulting Editor for the literary journal Lake Effect.