Born and raised in New York’s Hudson Valley, William Overstreet now lives in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Before that, he spent four years in Fort Defiance, Arizona, within the Navajo Nation. He has written extensively on international politics and economics, principally in the Political Handbook of the World series, most recently for the Congressional Quarterly Press imprint. He has also published short fiction as well as essays, including one on Navajo ceremonialism, “The Navajo Nightway and the Western Gaze,” in American Indian Persistence and Resurgence (Duke University Press). He holds degrees from Cornell University (B.S.), the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (M.F.A.), and Binghamton University (Ph.D.).

Halley’s Gathering is his first novel.