Tommy Zurhellen grew up in New York City. His fiction has appeared widely in Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, Passages North, Appalachee Review, and elsewhere. Currently he teaches writing in upstate New York. This is his first novel.
In Nazareth, North Dakota, debut novelist Tommy Zurhellen lovingly reimagines the New Testament as a series of interlocking tales set in the northernmost regions of the American heartland.