STACY BIERLEIN is the editor of the award-winning anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection, and the coeditor of Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience. She is a founding editor of the independent press Other Voices Books and co-creator of the Morgan Street International Novel Series. Bierlein is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. She has been a featured speaker in writing programs and literary seminars in the United States and Europe. Her articles about writing, publishing, and the arts appear on various websites, including TheNervousBreakdown.com. A native of Michigan, she currently makes her home in Southern California.