Daniel Torday is the author of the novel The Last Flight of Poxl West. New York Times chief critic Michiko Kakutani said the book "announces Torday's emergence as a writer deserving of attention," and in a cover review, The New York Times Book Review called the novel, “Expertly crafted... full of lyrical prose, superb Rothian sentences that glide over the page as smoothly as a Spitfire across a cloudless sky… utterly accomplished." Esquire Magazine called the book’s ending “the 149 best words published this year.” Torday's novella, The Sensualist, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. His short stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Tin House, Paris Review Daily and The Kenyon Review. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. He will read from his work.