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Megan Hustad has worked as an editor for the Knopf Group, Basic Books, and Counterpoint Press before leaving book publishing to write. She is the author of the book How To Be Useful, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2008, about working as a corporate underling. Her next book, a memoir, is due out from FSG in 2012. Her articles, essays, and commentary have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Daily Beast, Truthdig, New York Post, The Big Money, The Awl, and on American Public Media’s Marketplace. In 2010 she was awarded a residency at Denniston Hill and a MacDowell Fellowship in support of her nonfiction.Most of the time she lives in Manhattan.

Michelle Orange has worked as a film pro­ducer, moving from Ontario to New York in 2003 to join the grad­u­ate film stud­ies pro­gram at New York Uni­ver­sity. First pub­lished in the Globe and Mail in 1998, Michelle’s essays, fea­tures, fic­tion, and crit­i­cism have since appeared in McSweeney’s, The Nation, the Vir­ginia Quar­terly Review, the New York Times, the Vil­lage Voice, and other publications. She is the author of The Sicily Papers, pub­lished in 2006, and the edi­tor of From the Note­books: The Unwrit­ten Sto­ries of F. Scott Fitzger­ald, a col­lec­tion pub­lished in issue 22 of McSweeney’s. She is cur­rently a con­tribut­ing edi­tor at The Rum­pus and a staff critic at Movieline. This Is Run­ning For Your Life, an essay col­lec­tion, is forth­com­ing from FSG in the fall of 2012.