Jason Shinder is the author of the poetry books Every Room We Ever Slept In and the forthcoming Among Women. His most recent anthologies include The First Book and Best American Movie Writing, of which he is a series editor. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Bennington College and the New School for Social Research. Founder and director of the YMCA National Writers' Voice, a network of literary art centers, he is director Of Sundance Institute's Writing Fellowship Program.