Collection: Verlyn Klinkenborg

Verlyn Klinkenborg is the author of Timothy; Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile and Several Short Sentences About Writing, among other books. He lives in Columbia County, New York, and teaches creative writing at Yale University.


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