Kevin A. González is the author of a collection of poems, Cultural Studies (Carnegie Mellon, 2009), and the co-editor of The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.  His stories have been awarded the Narrative Prize, the Playboy College Fiction Prize, and the Michener-Copernicus Award, and they have appeared in Narrative, Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares Solos, Mississippi Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading and in two editions of Best New American Voices.  He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and serves as editor of jubilat.