STEFAN BECK was born in Pennsylvania in 1982, and raised in Connecticut and Illinois. He is a 2004 graduate of Dartmouth College. From 2004 to 2006 he was the Associate Editor of The New Criterion, for which he writes the Fiction Chronicle. He has worked as a freelance writer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Nemea, Greece; Palo Alto, California; Hartford, Connecticut; Charlottesville, Virginia; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Hudson, New York. He currently lives in central Connecticut with the choices he’s made.

His reviews and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Barnes & Noble Review, The Weekly Standard, The New York Sun, The New Criterion, Policy Review, National Review, and Fortean Times, the British journal of strange phenomena. He has also contributed to The New Republic’s The Book, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Commentary’s The Horizon, and Columbia Journalism Review Online.