author : Jon PinedaJon Pineda is a poet, memoirist, and novelist living in Virginia. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, and elsewhere. His memoir, Sleep in Me, was a 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and his novel Apology was the winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize. The author of several poetry collections, he teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte and is a member of the creative writing faculty of the College of William & Mary.