James Lough is the former director of the creative writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design, where he currently teaches full-time. He is the author of Sites of Insight, which won the Colorado Endowment of Humanities Award. He is also the winner of the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. Alex Stein is the author of two books of interviews, The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi, and Made-Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists. He works at the University of Colorado in Boulder.