Gary M. Almeter is a writer and attorney who lives in Baltimore with his wife, three children, and two dogs. He published his first book, a memoir/biography hybrid called The Emperor of Ice-Cream, in 2019. His first novel, Kissing the Roadkill Back to Life, will be published in June 2022, and his humor book, The Official Dream Dinner Party Handbook, is slated for publication in July 2022. Rafael Alvarez is a writer based in his hometown of Baltimore, the setting for virtually all of his fiction, journalism, and memoir. His biography of a Baltimore badass turned do-gooder-- Don't Count Me Out: The Bruce White Story--will be released in 2022 by Cornell University Press. A former staff writer for the HBO drama The Wire, Alvarez learned his craft on the city desk of the Baltimore Sun as a young man. He can be reached at orlo.leini@gmail.com.