Chuck Wachtel's books include 'Because We Are Here', a collection of short stories and novellas, and the novels 'Joe the Engineer', which won the PEN / Hemingway Citation and The Gates. He is also the author of 'The Coriolis Effect' and, most recently, 'What Happens to Me', a collection of poems and short prose. He has taught at Purdue University, Sarah Lawrence College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is currently an associate professor of creative writing at NYU.
