Stacy Muszynski likes receiving letters. Many people oblige. Some of these people are passionate. Example: Someone once left a letter under her vehicle’s wiper-blade: “Next time leave a can opener so I can get into my car. You are dumb-dumb-dumb!” Someone—maybe the same person—posted a comment on her rather defunct blog: “yuck. that is fucking gross. no one wants to hear that shit. I would rather listen to someone sodomizing one of their children then reading your stupid ass dribble.” In this vein, her work has been called, at turns, “beautiful” and “revolting.” This pleases her.

Humorist Owen Egerton is the author of the novel Marshall Hollenzer is Driving and the short story collection How Best to Avoid Dying. His writing has been featured in Puerto del Sol, Killing the Buddha, Tiferet, Word Riot, and several literary journals. He is also an accomplished screenplay writer and commentator for NPR affiliated stations. He is the co-creator of the award winning comedy hit The Sinus Show which performed for six years at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater, and for several years was the artistic director of Austin’s National Comedy Theatre. Egerton earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University in 2005 and in 2007 was voted Austin’s favorite local author by the readers of the Austin Chronicle. He lives ins south Austin with his wife Jodi, daughter Arden, and son Oscar.