ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel
All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of the two story collections
Memory Wall and
The Shell Collector, the novel
About Grace, and the memoir
Four Seasons in Rome. He has won four O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.