Michael Mejia is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. His novel Forgetfulness was published by Fiction Collective 2, and his fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Esquire.com, Notre Dame Review, Seneca Review, New Orleans Review, Salt Hill, AGNI, Pleiades, and American Book Review, among other magazines. He teaches creative writing at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia. (updated 4/2009)