has published essays, articles, and poems in the New York Times, Line of Advance, Columbia Journal, Salt Hill Journal, Raffish, and the Journal of Military Experience, and been anthologized in The Weight of My Armor (Parlor Press). His essay “Threads of Fiction” was adapted into the short film Solemn Return. Formerly he was an editor for the Syracuse Peace Council Newsletter, the nonfiction editor of the Journal of Military Experience, and the online managing editor of Columbia Journal. He served as an artillery officer in the US Army overseas in South Korea and Afghanistan, deployed to Afghanistan a second time as a military intelligence officer, and was honorably discharged at the rank of captain. He is a cofounder and board member of the Ivy League Veterans Council, a cofounder of the Charlotte Veterans Writing Group, a cofounder of the Moral Injury Project at Syracuse University, and a former group leader of the Syracuse Veterans Writing Group. He holds a BA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University.

is the author of the memoir Burying the Typewriter (Picador), the essay collection Poetry and the Language of Oppression (Oxford University), and the poetry collections Tristia, Time Being, Lillies from America, Releasing the Porcelain Birds, The House of Straw (all Shearsman Books), Sulla Soglia Della Dimenticanza (Kolibris), and Crossing the Carpathians (Carcanet Press), as well as the monograph Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile (Routledge). Her poems and essays have appeared in the Irish Times, Harvard Review, the International Literature Quarterly, the Nieman Storyboard, and the anthologies Centres of Catacylsm (Bloodaxe Books), See How I Land (Heaven Tree Press), and Penguin’s Poems for Life (Penguin). She has taught at New York University in Abu Dhabi, Stony Brook University, the University of Michigan, Grand Valley State University, the University of Fribourg, the Geneva Writers’ Group, and Oxford University. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan, an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, and a Master’s and Ph.D, both in English Literature, from Oxford University.

is the author of the memoirs Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg (Notting Hill Editions), Sanctuary (Random House), The Still Point of the Turning World (Penguin), and Poster Child (Bloomsbury), as well as the nonfiction craft book I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling (Counterpoint). Her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue, the New York Times, LitHub, Die Zeit, The Times-London, The Sun, Time, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, O the Oprah Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. She is a former Fulbright scholar and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught at the University of California-Riverside and the UCR School of Medicine. She holds a BA from Saint Olaf College, an MTS from Harvard University, and an MFA in Fiction and Poetry from the University of Texas.

is the author of the memoir Did I Ever Tell You? (Simon & Schuster), based on her New York Times Modern Love essay “She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box.” Her produced plays include Café Utopia (Hudson Guild Theatre), Wild Home: Ohio River Valley (Notch Theatre Co.), Anna Karenina: a riff (Notch Theatre Co. at the Flea Theatre), and Past Perfect (Brown University/Trinity Rep). She has taught at Waterwell (at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan). She holds a BA from the University of California-Berkeley, and an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep.

is the co-author of the memoir Jessica Lost (Union Square Press). She is the Theater Editor for ZealNYC, and her nonfiction has appeared in Afar, Food + Wine, New York, Seventeen, and USA Today. She has worked as a copywriter for New York and People, as copy chief for The Parenting Group at Time Warner, and as copy director for Reader’s Digest. She has taught at Media Bistro. She holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from The New School.