BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Jon A Katz attended Cornell University’s creative writing program from 2007 to 2009, and received an M.A. in secondary English education from Fordham University and a B.A. from New York University. He has worked as an English teacher in New York City’s public school system and a freelance journalist. His work has won the Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize for Fiction and been chosen as a finalist for the Kirkwood Literary Prize. He was twice selected for a residency at the Paden Institute and Retreat for Writer’s of Color. His writing has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles CityBeat, the Pasadena Weekly, the Ventura County Reporter, and the Trinidad Guardian, and is collected in Social Issues Firsthand: Mixed Heritage. iii