Kevin Sampsell is an editor (Portland Noir and other books), a publisher (Future Tense Books), a bookstore employee (Powell’s Books), a collage artist, and an author (the short story collection Creamy Bullets, the memoir, A Common Pornography and the novel, This Is Between Us–Tin House, November 2013). His stories and essays have appeared in publications and websites such as Salon, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Best Sex Writing 2012, and Best American Essays 2013. He lives in Portland.