Sunil Yapa’s first novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist was a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner award, and was named one of the best books of 2016 by Amazon, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and others. Set during one day of the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, the novel was described as “fast-paced and unflinching” by The New Yorker, “a genuine tour-de-force” by the Seattle Times, and “a shot across the bows of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Garden…” The Spectator (UK). Yapa works as a freelance fiction editor and teaches a month-long fiction seminar online through the Shipman Workroom. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Katy Day, and their children.
