Douglas Unger is the author of four novels, including Leaving the Land, a finalist for the Pulitzer and Robert F. Kennedy awards, and Voices from Silence, a year's end selection by The Washington Post Book World. His most recent book is Looking for War and Other Stories. He is a co-founder of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing International program and the Schaeffer Fellowship Ph.D. with Creative Dissertation at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Unger serves on the executive boards of Words Without Borders, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, and worked for five years as Grants and Acquisitions Director for the International Institute of Modern Letters until its absorption by the Black Mountain Institute. In addition to teaching and writing, Unger is the Interim Chair of the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and travels extensively in support of literary activism around the world.