Deborah Joy Corey is the award-winning author of two novels, Losing Eddie and The Skating Pond, and the memoir Settling Twice, as well as many essays and short stories. She is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Smithbooks/Canada Novel Award and ELLE’s Lettres Readers’ Prize, among others.
Debra Spark is the author of five novels, two collections of short stories, and two books of essays on fiction writing, as well as numerous articles, stories, and book reviews in places like Dwell, Esquire, Food and Wine, Maine Home+Design, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Yankee. She is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.