Ryan Ridge is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Second Acts in American Lives, a collection of stories coauthored with Mel Bosworth. An assistant professor at Weber State University, he lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and edits the literary magazine Juked and is the former editor of Miracle Monocle. Mel Bosworth is the author of the novel Freight and the poetry chapbook Every Laundromat in the World. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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