Thomas E. Kennedy received a Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Vermont College and a Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He has published hundreds of stories, essays, poems, interviews, and translations in American and European periodicals such as Kenyon Review,The European, and Fredag, in addition to four novels under the collective title of the Copenhagen Quartet. Kennedy has lived in Denmark for more than thirty years, but often visits the United States where he teaches in the low-residency MFA program of Fairleigh Dickinson University.