Alexi Zentner is the author of the novels The Lobster Kings and Touch. Touch was shortlisted for The Governor General’s Literary Award, The Center for Fiction’s Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Alexi’s fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and many other publications. Alexi is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University and a faculty member in the Sierra Nevada College low residency MFA program. He attended the Community of Writers in 2005. www.alexizentner.com