Rob Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House, an 11-year-old bi-coastal (Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon) literary magazine. His writing has appeared in BookForum, GQ, the New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Salon, Spin, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, among other magazines, newspapers, and essay collections. He is also the editor of Gods and Soldiers: the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing, which was published in 2009.