Todd James Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Newsworld, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was a finalist for the John Gardner Book Award and the Paterson Prize. His next book, Three Years in Wonderland, a narrative history of the men and women who built the first wave of American theme parks, was released in 2016. His work has been published in over 80 magazines and literary journals, including The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Harvard Review, The Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, North American Review, Shenandoah, The Sun, and Willow Springs. He attended the Community of Writers four times in the 1990s. www.toddjamespierce.com