Helen Phillips and Jess Row

Helen Phillips is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the Italo Calvino Prize. She is the author of the widely acclaimed The Beautiful Bureaucrat. Jess Row is the author of the story collection The Train to Lo Wu (shortlisted for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award) and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. He will read from Your Face in Mine.