Rafael Frumkin's first novel, THE COMEDOWN, was published by Henry Holt in 2018. His second novel, CONFIDENCE, is forthcoming from Simon and Schuster in February 2023. His collection of short stories, BUGSY, is slated to hit shelves in early 2024. He has written for the Washington Post, the Paris Review, Granta, Guernica, Hazlitt, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among other places. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Medill School of Journalism, he lives in Carbondale, IL, where he teaches fiction and nonfiction writing at Southern Illinois University.