About the Author

C Dylan Bassett'sbooks areGad'sBook(2023),A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms(2018), andInvention of Monsters: Plays for the Theatre(2015). He is an Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Emma Winsor Woodis a poet and essayist from New York City, Emma is the author of the poetry collectionThe Real World(BlazeVOX Books, 2022) and translator ofA Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms(Plays Inverse, 2018). She has a BA in Russian History & Literature from Harvard, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz.

She is the editor-in-chief ofStone Soup Magazine-the magazine 100% created by kids for kids (we like to think of ourselves as theParis Reviewfor the under-thirteen set!).

Finally, she is the co-author ofTheComplete College Essay Handbook, and works one-on-one with a select group of students on their college application essays each year.