John Minichillo's novel, The First Woman on Mars is forthcoming from Spaceboy Books. His novel, The Snow Whale, was an Independent Publishers Book Awards regional gold medalist for the West-Pacific and an Orion Magazine Book Prize notable. He wrote the column, "How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy" at McSweeney's Internet Tendency as one of the winners of their column contest. John is the recipient of a Tennessee Individual Artists Grant and lives and teaches in Nashville.