Heidi Pitlor is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, which was optioned for film, and Impersonation. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, Lit Hub, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Heidi was the series editor of the annual bestselling anthology The Best American Short Stories for eighteen years. Before that, she was a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for ten years. She is the editorial director of Plympton, a literary studio who seeks to bridge literature and technology. She is also the founder and director of Heidi Pitlor Editorial, a small firm that provides editorial support to authors, agents, and publishers. She lives outside Boston.
Michelle Wildgen is the author of the novels Wine People (August 2023, Zibby Books), You’re Not You, But Not For Long, and Bread and Butter, and the editor of the food writing anthology Food & Booze. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and “Modern Love” column, Oprah Magazine, Poets & Writers, Real Simple online, Best American Food Writing, Best New American Voices, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. A former executive editor with the award-winning literary journal Tin House, she is a freelance editor and creative writing teacher in Madison, Wis. Since 2013 she and novelist Susanna Daniel have run the Madison Writers’ Studio, offering a variety of creative writing workshops and classes.