Ted Thompson

Ted Thompson’s first novel, The Land of Steady Habits (Little, Brown & Co., 2014), was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was adapted into a film for Netflix by Nicole Holofcener. His stories have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, One Teen Story, and Best New American Voices. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers Omi, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Truman Capote Trust, and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He teaches in the Brooklyn College MFA program.