Dan Pope is the founder and publisher of Roundabout Press, based out of Hartford, Connecticut. He is a 2002 graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. His first novel, In the Cherry Tree, was published by Picador in 2003, and his second novel, Housebreaking, came out with Simon & Schuster in 2015. he has published short stories in such print journals as McSweeneys, Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Harvard Review, Witness, Post Road, Crazyhorse, The Bellevue Review, Fields Magazine, The Bennington Review, descant, and such anthologies as Best New American Voices 2007.