Matthew Vollmer is the author of Future Missionaries of America (MacAdam Cage, 2009), a collection of stories, andinscriptions for headstones (Outpost19, 2012), a collection of essays. With David Shields, he is the coeditor of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (W. W. Norton, 2012). In 2015, Persea Books will publish his second story collection, Gateway to Paradise. He is the editor of 21st Century Prose at the University of Michigan and directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Virginia Tech.