Miles Harvey

Miles Harvey is the author of an award-winning debut collection of short fiction, The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories (Mad Creek Books, 2024). His nonfiction includes The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), Painter in a Savage Land (Random House, 2008) and The Island of Lost Maps (a national and international bestseller for Random House, 2000). Harvey teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he chairs the Department of English, serves as director of the DePaul Publishing Institute and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher.