West Virginia native Marie Manilla is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx Journal, Kestrel, Portland Review, GSU Review, and other journals. She is the author of the upcoming novel Shrapnel, a Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel winner.

Zohreh T. Sullivan is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She is the author of Narratives of Empire: The Fictors of Rudyard Kipling and editor of the Norton edition of Kipling’s Kim.

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