Summer 2004

Daniel Alarcón is associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, a monthly magazine published in his native Lima, Peru. His short story collection, War by Candlelight (Harper-Collins), was a finalist for the 2006 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His first novel, Lost City Radio (HarperCollins, 2007), was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and Chicago Tribune. He lives in Oakland, California.

Thisbe Nissen is the author of a novel, The Good People of New York (Knopf, 2001), and a collection of stories, Out of the Girls’ Room and into the Night (Iowa, 1999 / Anchor, 2000), winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. She is also the coauthor of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes) (HarperResource, 2002). Her new novel, Osprey Island, will be released by Knopf in June.