Lou Ureneck is the author of Backcast, a memoir of fishing and fatherhood that won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award. His follow-up, Cabin, is a Thoreau-esque mediation on construction in the Maine wilderness. The former deputy managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ureneck teaches journalism at Boston University. The Great Fire tells the true story of a conscientious American naval officer who rescued more than a quarter-million refugees during the Armenian genocide. 

Aline Ohanesian’s debut novel, Orhan’s Inheritance, is the time-hopping tale of a brilliant Turkish rugmaker’s grandson and the mysterious elderly woman he travels to Los Angeles to meet in order reconcile his family’s dark past.  It was a finalist for the PEN Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction and has been translated into several languages. Ohanesian’s essays have been published in Publisher’s Weekly and Glimmer Train, among other places.