Theodore Wheeler is the author of three novels, including the forthcoming The War Begins in Paris (Little, Brown, 2023), and one collection of short fiction. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. Before returning to academia, he worked for fourteen years as a journalist who covered law and politics. Wheeler is also director of Omaha Lit Fest and, with his wife, operates Dundee Book Company, an independent neighborhood bookshop.