Ryan Boudinot is the author of The Littlest Hitler, one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2006. His stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Stumbling and Raging: More Politically-Inspired Fiction, and elsewhere. He currently teaches creative writing at Goddard College's MFA program in Port Townsend, Washington, and lives in Seattle.