David Shields is the New York Times best-selling author of sixteen books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of the year by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, and Black Planet (National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
Caleb Powell grew up in the Pacific Northwest, has played bass in a band, worked construction, and spent ten years teaching ESL and studying foreign languages on six continents. Now a stay-at-home father in Seattle, he has published stories and essays in descant, Post Road, and ZYZZYVA.