Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow in 1938. Her books include There Once Lived a Woman Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories.
James Agee was an American poet, novelist, film critic, screenwriter, and magazine journalist who died in 1955. Agee’s Cotton Tenants was published by The Baffler and Melville House in 2013.
Harryette Mullen is the author of, among other books, The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be and Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary.