Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists and Notes from No Man’s Land, which recently received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and teaches nonfiction writing as an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best Creative Nonfiction, The Believer, Gulf Coast, and Harper’s.
John Bresland works in video, radio, and print. His audio essays have aired on public radio’s Weekend America, and his video essays can be seen at Ninth Letter and Blackbird. His print essays can be read in North American Review, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing and new media at Northwestern University.
Ode to Everything