About the Author

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John Freeman is the author of Dictionary of the Undoing several other books, including The Park (Copper Canyon, 2020), and There's a Revolution Outside My Life (2021), co-edited with Tracy K Smith. The founder of the literary annual Freeman's, he is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His latest books are The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (Penguin, 2021), and The Wind, Trees (Copper Canyon, 2022), a collection of poems. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.