Douglas Light was born in Indiana. His story collection Girls in Trouble won the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for short fiction. It will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press. He is the author of the novel East Fifth Bliss, which received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. The screen adaptation of this novel, which he wrote with Michael Knowles, begins shooting in April 2010. It stars Michael C. Hall, Peter Fonda, and Lucy Liu. Light received a 2010 NoMAA Grant and his fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and has appeared in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, Narrative, Guernica, Alaska Quarterly Review, Failbetter, and other magazines.