Deborah Pintonelli is the author of the award-winning collection of poetry, Meat and Memory, and Ego Monkey, a story collection. Some Heart, her first novel, has not yet been published. She is the co-founder of the poetry broadside, Letter eX, and winner of awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and PEN Midwest. Her stories have been anthologized by NYU Press, Autonomedia, Thin Ice Press, and Abre a Cames Editions in France. She lives in Chicago with her two children.