Gary Fincke's books have won The Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, the Robert C. Jones Prize for Nonfiction Prose, andwhat is now the Wheeler Prize for Poetry. His latest collections are Nothing Falls from Nowhere: Stories (Steven F. Austin, 2021) andThe Mussolini Diaries (Serving House, 2020). His new collection of essays The Mayan Syndrome will be published later this year byMadhat Press. Its lead essay, "After the Three-Moon Era," was selected to be reprinted in Best American Essays 2020. Cover artist Shannon Rae Fincke is also an Art Educator and Art Administrator living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Her workhas been exhibited at museums and galleries internationally, and has been featured in print, film, and television. She is the Founder/Director of Institute for Visual Arts, mother of three children, and daughter of Gary Fincke.