Kevin Oderman is the author of two expat novels, Going (set in Granada) and White Vespa (set in Greece). He won a Bakeless Prize in nonfiction for a book of literary essays, How Things Fit Together. He twice taught abroad as a Fulbright Scholar, first in Thessaloniki, Greece, and subsequently in Lahore, Pakistan. He teaches at West Virginia University and in the Wilkes University Low-Residency Creative Writing MA/MFA Program. He lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, with his wife, the writer Sara Pritchard.