Jared Marcel Pollen lives in Prague. He was born in Canada, studied politics and literature at the University of Windsor and received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in NY. Venus&Document is his debut novel. His previous book of short stories, The Unified Field of Loneliness, collects ten stories which take place from Paris to New York to Vienna to London and locates characters living in a condition of terror, solipsism, and displacement in the technological age. His essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Quillette, Tablet, 3: AM Magazine and Liberties. www.jaredmoiseul.wordpress.com/books
