Douglas Light[1] (born Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer.
The film stars Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame, Lucy Liu, and Brie Larson.
His story collection, Girls in Trouble, received the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize[2] for short fiction.
While attending graduate school at The City College of New York, he studied under Frederic Tuten and was award the Goodman Loan Fund Grant Award, the Danielle and Larry Nyman Family Project Award, and the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Prize for his writing.
received a 2003 O. Henry Award and was selected for inclusion in the 2003 Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, which was edited by Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith.