Nan Cuba is the author of Body and Bread and co-editor of Art at our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists. Her work has appeared in such places as Quarterly West, Columbia, Antioch Review, and storySouth. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in LIFE and D Magazine. She is the founder of the nonprofit literary center, Gemini Ink (www.geminiink.org), and an associate professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.