Andrew Winer is the author of the novels, The Marriage Artist and The Color Midnight Made. He also writes and speaks about art, religion, literature, and philosophy, and conducts conversations with fellow authors, most recently with Colm Toibin and Geoff Dyer. He is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. He is completing a new novel about American religion and politics, and co-authoring a book on what Nietzsche has to say to contemporary people.