Robert Dunn is a writer, teacher, and musician. He has published widely, including an O. Henry Prize-winning story, as well as fiction in The Atlantic, Redbook, Omni, and numerous literary journals, poetry in The New Yorker, and a front-page essay in The New York Times Book Review. His novel The Sting Rays is in print through Electron Press (www.electronpress.com). He has worked for The New Yorker magazine, as well as teaching at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. For the last years of the writer Bernard Malamud’s life, Dunn was his assistant in New York City; this was a significant part of his literary apprenticeship.

Currently, Dunn works for Sports Illustrated, and for almost two decades he has taught fiction writing at The New School in New York City, which he continues to do. He taught the first on-line fiction writing class through their innovative DIAL PROGRAM and set the model for classes that followed.

Dunn is also the founder of the musical group Thin Wild Mercury, as well as its guitar player and principal songwriter. Thin Wild Mercury plays often around New York City. Information about the group can be found at www.thinwildmercury.com.

He can be reached at rgdunn@aol.com.

L.E. Brady works as Music Feature Writer for the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner. She also served for two years as contributing editor for HHGI Online Guitar Magazine and as local music columnist for Junction Magazine. She regularly writes profiles and reviews for Blue Suede News, an American roots music magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in The Mid-South Literary Review. She currently resides in Ogden with her husband Steve and her children Carmen, James and Lee. Lone Star Ice and Fire is her first novel.

She can be reached at lbrady@standard.net.