Steve Stern is the author of several novels and story collections, including The Wedding Jester, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He has received grants from the Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations and teaches at Skidmore College in upstate New York. (updated 4/2016)

Stern’s AGNI story “The Plate-Spinner” won a Pushcart Prize and is reprinted in the 2017 anthology.