Ginger Strand grew up in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, but mostly on a farm in Michigan. She is the author of one novel and three books of narrative nonfiction, and has published essays and fiction in many places, including Harper’s, The Believer, Tin House, The Iowa Review, The New England Review and the New York Times, as well as This Land and Orion, where she is a contributing editor.

James Wallenstein’s work has appeared in GQ, The Believer, the Antioch Review, The Boston Review, and the Hudson Review, among other publications. He lives in New York. The Arriviste is his first novel.