Mark O'Brien Editor & Author

Mark O'Brien was a published poet and cofounder of the Lemonade Factory. He died in 1999 at the age of forty-nine just after completing a draft of How I Became a Human Being.

Gillian Kendall is author of Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas and editor of Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.