David Joy is the author of the novels Where All Light Tends to Go (Putnam, 2015) and The Weight Of This World (Putnam, 2016), as well as the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey (Bright Mountain Books, 2011), which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award for Creative Nonfiction.His writing has appeared in The Pisgah Review, Flycatcher, Drafthorse Literary Journal, Smoky Mountain Living, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Bird Watcher's Digest, and was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. He is represented by Julia Kenny of Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner.He lives in Webster, North Carolina.