About the Author

Mike Sacks has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Radar, Funny or Die, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women's Health, and Salon. He has worked at The Washington Post, and is currently on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair. His first book, And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers About Their Craft, was released in Summer 2009. His 2014 book was a sequel to And Here's the Kicker, called Poking a Dead Frog. His latest book, Stinker Lets Loose, is the 40th anniversary re-release of the movie by the same name. James Fleming is a college literature instructor and writer, and the author of the Cosby Codex for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Jamie Quatro holds an MA in English from the College of William and Mary, and an MFA in fiction from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, VQR, Agni, and elsewhere. Her stories are anthologized in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, The Story and Its Writer (ed. Ann Charters), and the 2018 Pushcart Prize Anthology. A Contributing Editor at Oxford American, Quatro teaches in the summers-only MFA program at Sewanee, The University of the South, and lives with her husband and four children in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.