Erin Lindsay McCabe studied Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, earned a teaching credential at California State University, Chico, and taught high school English for seven years before completing her MFA at St. Mary’s College in 2010.  She is currently teaching Composition at Butte College, and eagerly awaiting the arrival of her first novel, I Shall Be Near to You, forthcoming from Crown in 2014.

JOSHUA MOHR is the author of four novels, including “Damascus,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.”  He’s also written “Some Things that Meant the World to Me,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, as well as “Termite Parade,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List.  He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at USF. His latest novel “Fight Song” was published in February 2013.