Matti Ben-Lev earned his BA from Towson University, where he studied creative writing and was a poetry editor on Grub Street, Towson’s literary magazine. Ben-Lev has written for 34thParallel and lives in Baltimore, where he has worked as a behavioral therapist for kids on the autism spectrum. His Twitter handle is @MBenlev.
Memoir is less common territory for Darrieussecq, but with insomnia, she has found a real-world subject appropriate for her ongoing concerns about making sense of the absurd.