Jake Silverstein was born in 1975. He received a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University, an M.A. in English from Hollins University in Virginia, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His first book, Nothing Happened and Then It Did, a Chronicle in Fact and Fiction will be published by W. W. Norton in 2010. He came to work for Texas Monthly in 2006 as a Senior Editor. In September 2008 he was named Editor of Texas Monthly.