Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord lives in New York with his wife, the Edgar Award–winning novelist Megan Abbott. For almost a decade, he has taught high school English at an Upper East Side prep school. Since 2002, he has also taught literature and cultural studies courses as an adjunct professor at the New School. He graduated from Berkeley with a degree in English and a minor in creative writing. In 2000, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from New York University, specializing in twentieth-century American and British literature.