Lynne Tillman’s novels include Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Other books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967, photographs by Stephen Shore: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Someday This Will Be Funny. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and the Katherine Anne Porter award. Her most recent work, MOTHERCARE, is an autobiographical book-length essay on caring for a sick parent for 11 years.

James Yeh is a writer, editor, journalist, and educator. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Drift, the Guardian, the Believer, McSweeney’s Quarterly, NOON, and Dissent, among other places. A two-time MacDowell fellow, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Hub City Writers Project, and the Black Mountain Institute. A former editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, the Believer, and VICE, he currently teaches writing at Columbia University and the Center for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, where he is at work on a novel.