Mark Brazaitis is the author of five books, including The Incurables (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction), winner of the 2012 Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame Press. He is also the author of the story collections The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala (Iowa Short Fiction Award), and An American Affair, the poetry collection The Other Language, and Steal My Heart: A Novel, a novel. A former Peace Corps volunteer and technical trainer, Brazaitis is a professor of English and the director of the West Virginia Writers' Workshop at West Virginia University. Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, he lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, with his wife and two daughters.