Christine Sneed's first book, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, won AWP's Grace Paley Prize; her novels are Paris, He Said and Little Known Facts, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her fourth book, a story collection titled The Virginity of Famous Men, is forthcoming.

Philip Graham is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and McSweeney's. He teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the VCFA MFA in Writing program. He is a cofounder and an editor of Ninth Letter.

Scott Blackwood is the author See How Small, We Agreed to Meet Just Here, and In the Shadow of Our House, and two creative nonfiction books about Paramount Records produced by Jack White. Winner of them Whiting Writer's Award and the AWP Novel Award, he teaches writing at Southern Illinois University.

Patricia King's stories appear in the Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, and Nimrod. Her chapbooks, The Death of Carrie Bradshaw and Rubia, won Kore Press's and the Florida Review's short fiction contests, respectively. A former Wisconsin Fellow in fiction, she is an editor at Kore Press.

Bryan Fierro