Naomi Shihab Nye teaches creative writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. The author of more than thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and short fiction, including 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East; I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven; and There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.MARION WINIK, author of Highs in the Low Fifties, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Rules for the Unruly, and other books, is an essayist and occasional commentator for National Public Radio. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Baltimore.

Naomi Shihab Nye teaches creative writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. The author of more than thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and short fiction, including 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East; I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven; and There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.MARION WINIK, author of Highs in the Low Fifties, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Rules for the Unruly, and other books, is an essayist and occasional commentator for National Public Radio. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Baltimore.

Naomi Shihab Nye teaches creative writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. The author of more than thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and short fiction, including 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East; I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven; and There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.MARION WINIK, author of Highs in the Low Fifties, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Rules for the Unruly, and other books, is an essayist and occasional commentator for National Public Radio. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Baltimore.