KEITH O’BRIEN is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the 2025 PEN America award for best biography. O’Brien’s books include Heartland, Charlie Hustle, Fly Girls, Paradise Falls, and Outside Shot. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone, and his stories have also appeared on National Public Radio and This American Life. A native of Ohio, he now lives in New Hampshire.