Douglas Light is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His novel, East Fifth Bliss, won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. He co-wrote the screen adaptation of East Fifth Bliss, which star Michael C. Hall, Peter Fonda, Lucy Liu, and Sarah Shahi. His story collection, Girls in Trouble, received the AWP 2010 Grace Paley Prize. It will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in October 2011. His novel, Where Night Stops, will be published in January 2012. His fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and appeared in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, Narrative, Guernica, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other publications.