Rebecca Entel is the author of a novel, Fingerprints of Previous Owners; stories and essays in such journals as Guernica and Literary Hub; and flash in Jellyfish Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing; U.S. and Caribbean literature; and the literature of social justice at Cornell College, where she is Small Distinguished Professor. As director of Cornell’s Center for the Literary Arts, she oversees a Visiting Writer Series, workshops and events, a literary and art magazine, and an internship program. She also mentors in the PEN America Prison and Justice Writing program.