About Nicole Louise Reid:
Nicole Louise Reid is the author of the short story collection, So There! (SFA University Press) a novel, In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage), and two fiction chapbooks, If You Must Know (Burnside Review Press) and Girls (RockSaw Press). Her award-winning short stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, and Meridian. Winner of the 2010 Dana Award in Short Fiction and 2011Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition, she teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana, where she directs the RopeWalk Reading Series and is editor of RopeWalk Press and fiction editor of Southern Indiana Review. www.NicoleLouiseReid.com

About Patrick Wensink:
Patrick Wensink has done a lot of things he is not proud of. He’s also done a few he isn’t so shy about, such as getting married in a doughnut shop and selling his own line of Wentastic BBQ Sauce. In addition, he is the recipient of the Patrick Wensink Foundation’s 2011 Nobel Prize for Good Looks. His books include the novels Broken Piano for President (2012, Lazy Fascist Press) and Black Hole Blues (2011, Lazy Fascist Press) and the story collection, Sex Dungeon for Sale! (2009, Eraserhead Press). He lives in Louisville, KY with his wife and son. www.patrickwensink.com