About the Author

MARK DOTY is the author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, for which he won the National Book Award in 2008, and Dog Years, a New York Times bestseller. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines. DARREN WATERSTON's paintings, watercolours, and murals have been exhibited internationally and are in many museum collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum. He lives and works in New York.