William Henry Lewis’s collection of short stories, I Got Somebody in Staunton (HarperCollins, 2005), was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and received a Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award. Lewis is also the author of the short story collection In The Arms of Our Elders (Carolina Wren, 1995). His fiction appears in Ploughshares, New Letters, Colorado Review, Callaloo, African American Review, and The Kenyon Review. His nonfiction is published in Black Issues in Higher Education, Washington Post Book World, and O magazine. Lewis is currently an associate professor at Colgate University.