Will Heinrich was born in New York and spent his early childhood in Japan. He reviews gallery shows, museum exhibitions, and art fairs for the New York Times, as well as writing artist obituaries, and has also written for the New Yorker, New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Jewish Currents and the Nation. His novel The King’s Evil, first published by Scribner in 2003, won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004. He has a BA in Japanese from Columbia and an MFA from Bard College. His another work, From Darkness to Darkness will be also published by Thousand Horsemen Press.