Teddy Jefferson, author of One Inch Leather: 14 Stories (pendulum books), and Rorschach Tempest: A Dialogue on Shakespeare’s Tempest (in Italian and English, published by sedizioni), and numerous stories, essays, and plays, including The Wedding, The Desk, and The Insomniac (performed in New York and at the Prithvi Theater in Mumbai), text for Blessed Unrest’s Eurydice’s Dream, and Savitri: In the Forest of Death, performed by Preeti Vasudevan in India and Chicago and nominated for India’s META theater award in 2013. 2010 NYFA fellow, his translation of Pirandello’s However You Want Me (Come tu mi vuoi) won the PEN translation prize. His next book of stories is due out in spring 2014.