Roy Scranton is the author of the novel <i>War Porn</i> (Soho Press, 2016) and the philosophical essay <i>Learning to Die in the Anthropocene</i> (City Lights, 2015). His journalism, essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in <em>The Nation</em>, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, the <em>New York Times</em>, LIT, <em>Boston Review</em>, <i>Prairie Schooner</i>, <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>, <em>Contemporary Literature</em>, <em>The Appendix</em>, and elsewhere. He is also one of the editors of <em>Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War</em> (Da Capo, 2013). He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton and an M.A. from the New School for Social Research, and teaches creative writing in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame.