Jeff Somers's "The Stringer"

Jeff Somers is the author of the Avery Cates series, The Ustari Cycle, Lifers , and Chum (among many other books) and numerous short stori...

Barry Hankins's "Woodrow Wilson"

Barry Hankins is Professor of History at Baylor University, as well as a Resident Scholar with the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR...

Kodi Scheer's "Midair"

Kodi Scheer teaches writing at the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA. She was awarded the Dzanc Prize for Excellence in Lite...

Tom Bullough's "Addlands"

Tom Bullough grew up on a hill farm in Wales, where he still lives. He has worked as a sawmiller, a music promotor in Zimbabwe, a tractor...

Danny Johnson's "The Last Road Home"

Danny Johnson 's writing follows the tradition of Southern authors whose characters most often represent the disenfranchised in society,...

Yoav Alon's "The Shaykh of Shaykhs"

Yoav Alon is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialis...

Ellen Wittlinger's "Local Girl Swept Away"

Ellen Wittlinger is the author of over a dozen YA and middle-grade novels. Her novel Hard Love won both a Printz Honor Award and a Lambda ...