James Boice was born in 1982 in Salinas, California and grew up in northern Virginia. He is the author of the novels MVP and NoVA. His work has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Fiction, Salt Hill and others. He writes about pathological professional athletes, pathological northern Virginia residents, and other pathological people. He lives in New York now after several years in Cambridge, MA. See www.jamesboice.com