About the Author

C Dylan Bassett's books are Gad's Book (2023), A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (2018), and Invention of Monsters: Plays for the Theatre (2015). He is an Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. 

Emma Winsor Wood is a poet and essayist from New York City, Emma is the author of the poetry collection The Real World (BlazeVOX Books, 2022) and translator of A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (Plays Inverse, 2018). She has a BA in Russian History & Literature from Harvard, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz.

She is the editor-in-chief of Stone Soup Magazine—the magazine 100% created by kids for kids (we like to think of ourselves as the Paris Review for the under-thirteen set!).

Finally, she is the co-author of The Complete College Essay Handbook, and works one-on-one with a select group of students on their college application essays each year.