Lucas Mann is the author of the recent collection Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, published by the University of Iowa Press, and Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV (Vintage). His memoir Lord Fear was celebrated by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "a stunning, and chilling, portrait of the brother he hardly knew," and by the Chicago Tribune as "a masterpiece." Lucas's first book, Class-A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere, has been hailed by NPR, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe as “raucous, scruffy, heartfelt, and true.”  He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a United States Artists Fellowship. He now teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

“I think the biggest thing that I got out of my time in the Nonfiction Writing Program was a feeling of validation. I don't mean easy, ego-stroking validation, but rather the belief that the kind of writing I love and aspire to is not just worthwhile but important. I learned to take essay writing seriously because I was a part of a community of super talented, forward thinking people who cared deeply about their own work and the future of their chosen genre. I needed that.”