Mark de Silva holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD). Having served for several years on the editorial staff of the New York Times’s opinion pages, he now freelances for the paper’s Sunday magazine. He is the author of "Distant Visions," a critical essay on the state of contemporary fiction that was recently published in 3:AM Magazine. His first novel, Square Wave, is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in February of 2016.