Kirk Nesset is associate professor of English and creative writing at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He is the author of "Mr. Agreeable" and the nonfiction study "The Stories of Raymond Carver," He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and numerous grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, and translations have appeared in the "Paris Review, Ploughshares," the "Southern Re"view, and the "Kenyon Revi"ew, among others.