I'm a writer in Austin, Tex.: I've written two books, one to be published in May 2015 by Crown called Year of the Dunk. And I'm a staff reporter at the Austin American-Statesman. I live in an old Austin house with my wife, who edits the journal American Short Fiction, and Poppy, our scruffy, disreputable-looking dog. I grew up in New York City, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, shipped off to Yale for college, where I met my wife, a native Austinite, and after grad school in England landed a job at the newspaper down here. Austin's a great town: yummy food, wonderful music, and, for a reporter like me, fascinating politics. So as much as I miss my family and my old school friends back in New York City, I'm a committed card-carrying (driver's license!) Texan now.