Brandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir (forthcoming University of Nebraska Press), which won the 2007 River Teeth Prize for Literary Nonfiction, and is a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers summer selection. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, River Teeth, Ecotone, Oklahoma Review, Isotope, and numerous other publications. He has won the Wallace Stegner Prize, the 2006 Willard R. Espy Award, two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and his essay, The Enders Hotel, the title piece from his memoir, was a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2007. He lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two children where he coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho. Visit him online at www.brandonrschrand.com. "