Jonathan Penner is the author of Going Blind and Natural Order (novels); Private Parties, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and This Is My Voice (story collections); and The Intelligent Traveler’s Guide to Chiribosco (a novella). His stories have appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He lives in Tucson and Portland. (updated 10/2014)