About the Author Eric Weinberger graduated from Yale and has taught expository writing at Harvard University since 1999. An occasional essayist and book reviewer, his work has appeared most often in the New York Times Book Review and the Boston Sunday Globe.Lee Martin's most recent book, The Bright Forever (Shaye Areheart Books), was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is also the author of Turning Bones, Quakertown, From Our House, and The Least You Need to Know. He directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Ohio State University.Belle Boggs teaches first grade in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from the University of California at Irvine in 2002. She is at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.Katherin Nolte's fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals, including Fence, Confrontation, the Beloit Fiction Journal, Blue Mesa Review, and Natural Bridge. She graduated with an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote fellow. Mark Sindecuse is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His previous work has appeared in Arkansas Review and Boulevard. He practices emergency medicine and is working on a collection of short stories and a novel.Louis Gallo was born and raised in New Orleans. He is a full professor at Radford University in Virginia. He is former editor of Books: A New Orleans Review.Stephen Dixon has published twenty-six books of fiction including fourteen novels and twelve story collections. He teaches in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University.Sean Beaudoin's first novel, Going Nowhere Faster, will be published by Little, Brown in spring 2007. Evan Shopper is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches at the Evergreen State College. Michelle Richmond is the author of the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress and three novels, Dream of the Blue Room, Year of the Fog, and No One You Know.Jennifer Oh has published in Glimmer Train and