WWLA Welcomes New Instructor Karl Taro Greenfeld

We are thrilled to welcome Karl Taro Greenfeld to our roster of instructors!

Karl is the author of eight books, including the novel Triburbia (2012, Harper) and the memoir Boy Alone (2009, Harper), a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. His next novel, The Subprimes, will be published by Harper in May, 2015. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Paris Review, GQ, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Ploughshares and numerous other publications. His short stories have twice been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (2009, 2013) and once in O. Henry Prize Stories (2012) and his non-fiction has appeared in numerous Best American anthologies. From 1998 to 2007, he was a writer and editor at Time and Sports Illustrated, running Time Asia and helping to launch Sports Illustrated China. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and earned a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University. He has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York and Los Angeles, where he currently lives with his wife, Silka, and daughters Esmee and Lola.