An O. Henry Award winner, John Biguenet is the author of seven books, including The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories and Oyster: A Novel, as well as six award-winning plays. Named its first guest columnist by the New York Times, Biguenet chronicled in both columns and videos his return to New Orleans after its flooding in 2005. Past president of the American Literary Translators Association, he is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.