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K. M. Soehnlein is the author of the novels You Can Say You Knew Me When and the Lambda Award–winning The World of Normal Boys, both published by Kensington. His journalism and essays have appeared in The Village Voice, Elle Decor, Out, and the anthologies Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times and From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up. He lives with his partner, Kevin Clarke, in San Francisco, and teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Most of the names used in “The Collectors” are pseudonyms. (A bit of advice: Don’t ask your muse if she likes the pseudonym you’ve chosen for her; she never does.) Visit him at www.kmsoehnlein.com.

  Andrew Solomon is the author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-two languages; it also won the Lammy and fourteen other national awards. He has lectured on depression around the world, including recent stints at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, M.I.T., Cambridge, and the Library of Congress. He is the author of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost, and the novel A Stone Boat; he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and various other publications. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. at Cambridge in psychology, and is writing a book, A Dozen Kinds of Love, about how families deal with children of trauma—those with autism, deafness, or dwarfism; those who commit crimes or were conceived in rape; those who are prodigies; and so on. He lives in New York and London. His Web site is www.awsolomon.com.

  Elizabeth Spiers is the founder and publisher of Dead Horse Media, which produces DealBreaker.com, a Wall Street tabloid, and AboveTheLaw.com, a legal tabloid. She was previously the editor in chief of Mediabistro.com, a contributing writer and editor at New York, and the founding editor of Gawker.com, a media gossip site. She has also written for The New York Times, the New York Post, Black Book, and Jane, among others. Her debut novel, And They All Die in the End, will be published by Riverhead in 2007. She lives in New York. Her Web site is www.elizabethspiers.com.

  Zach Udko studied at Stanford University (B.A. and M.A. in English) and New York University (M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing). He has had his plays read or produced in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, London, Edinburgh, Kentucky, and New York, and they have won national awards from the Kennedy Center A.C.T. Festival. He was a 2006 Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellow, and currently teaches writing courses at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. For more information, go to his Web site at www.zachudko.com. If you think Zach’s mother would like you, feel free to contact him.

  Ayelet Waldman is the bestselling author of the novels Love and Other Impossible Pursuits and Daughter’s Keeper. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, and the Guardian, among other places. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and their four children. Her Web site is www.ayeletwaldman.com.

  Edwin John Wintle is the author of Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle’s Memoir, a chronicle of his first year as guardian to his precocious, talented, and wildly rebellious thirteen-year-old niece. Ed’s professional life has been just as unpredictable as his personal one: He was an actor in the eighties, a lawyer in the nineties, and is currently a part-time film agent. Despite all of this excitement—or maybe because of it—Ed’s favorite thing to do is sleep. When he’s not negotiating book-to-film deals, he can be found napping in New York City’s Writers Room, where he’s supposed to be working on his next book, Wide Awake, a dystopian novel featuring, of all things, a couple of insomniacs. Ed can be contacted through his Web site at www.edwinjohnwintle.com. Answering e-mails is his second favorite way to procrastinate.