Benjamin Schmitt is the Elgin Award-nominated author of four books, most recently The Saints of Capitalism and Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems, stories, and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Sojourners, Antioch Review, The MacGuffin, Sensitive Skin, Hobart, Spillway, The Seattle Times, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he lives in Seattle with his wife and children.