Bill welcomes debut novelist Joe Milan Jr. to the show. Joe is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Waldorf University, was the David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Black Mountain Institute and Barrick Ph.D. Fellow of Creative Writing at University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. He has served as fiction editor at Witness and is an MFA graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He’s American with Korean ancestry and taught in Korea for nine years. His work has appeared in Broad Street, The Rumpus, F(r)iction, The Flexible Persona, LA Review of Books, The Kyoto Journal, and more. The All-American is his first novel.