Mr. Ervin is the author of Extraordinary Renditions, a collection of three novellas from Coffee House Press, which in 2010 Publisher’s Weekly included on its list of the year’s best books.
His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Golden Handcuffs Review, Fiction International, The Southern Review, Monkeybicycle, and elsewhere. He’s married to the flutist Elivi Varga and lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches at Temple University, reviews books for places like The Believer and the New York Times. He is finishing up a novel set on the Scottish island where Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.