Marc Nieson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and NYU Film School.  Excerpts from his memoir Schoolhouse: A Memoir in 13 Lessons have appeared in the Literary Review and Iowa Review, and his short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.  He serves on the faculty of Chatham University in Pittsburgh and is currently working on a new novel, Houdini’s Heirs.