As a young man, David Rhodes worked in fields, hospitals, and factories across Iowa. After receiving an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1971, he published The Last Fair Deal Going Down (Atlantic/Little Brown, 1972), iThe Easter House (Milkweed Editions, 2008). In 1977 a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the chest down. First published in hardcover in 2008, Driftless was David Rhodes’ first novel in thirty years. A 2008 Booklist Editors’ Choice selection, Driftless garnered attention in the Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, New Yorker, Bookforum, Christian Science Monitor, Books & Culture, Time Out Chicago, Philadelphia City Paper, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Des Moines Register, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, California Literary Review, and on National Public Radio. Rhodes has also contributed to the New York Times. He lives with his wife, Edna, in rural Wisconsin.