Sara Nović and Alison Kolesar

Sara Nović is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton University and the fiction editor for Blunderbuss Magazine. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. Her first novel, Girl at War, won the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Alison Kolesar grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, and earned a history degree from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in art history from the Courtauld Institute in London before immigrating to the United States at the age of 25. She has illustrated everything from people and plants to maps and machines.