Douglas Silver's fiction has appeared in The Sun, Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, New England Review, The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal, Callaloo, and elsewhere. His work was cited as a "Distinguished Story" in Best American Short Stories 2019. An Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient and former writer-in-residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, he is the founder and executive director of Gotham Food Pantry.