ANDREA SCRIMA was born in New York City and studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, where she lives and works. A LESSER DAY is her first book. Scrima has received numerous awards for her artistic work, as well as a writer’s grant from the Berlin Council on Science, Research, and the Arts and a National Hackney Literary Award. She is currently working on an anti-war children’s graphic novel titled ISHMAEL.
Lynda Schor is a prizewinning author of four published collections of short fiction, most recently, THE BODY PARTS SHOP, published by Fiction Collective 2 (FC2). She’s the author of a multitude of anthologized stories, magazine articles, and reviews. Her latest and fifth collection, SEDUCTION, will be published by Spuyten Duyvil Press in February. She taught fiction writing at a number of universities, and at The New School for 25 years. She now lives in San Miguel de Allende, MX.