If It Ever Happens That
the Fire Goes Out

Lisa Olstein is the author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, which won the Hayden Carruth Award, and of Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Olstein has been widely published. She serves as associate director of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts and is a cofounder of the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action.