Jon Pineda is the author of two novels, Let’s No One Get Hurt (Fararr, Straus and Giroux, 2018) and Apology (Milkweed Editions, 2013), winner of the MilkweedNational Fiction Prize. His memoir, Sleep in Me (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Library Journal “Best Books of 2010” pick. He is the author of the poetry collections Little Anodynes (University of South Carolina Press, 2015), winner of the 2016 Library of Virginia Literary Award; The Translator’s Diary (New Issues, 2008), winner of the Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose; and Birthmark (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry award. Pineda is a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. He teaches at the College of William & Mary.