McSweeney's Issue 21

Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers...

Chloe Melisande Hooper is an Australian author. <h3>Works contributed to:</h3> - Essay Diary of a Convert in [Bewitched & Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22909329W) (Hardie Grant Books, 2013)

Stephen Elliott is an author whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Issue 21. Readers often appreciate his honest and direct approach to storytelling. He is known for his distinctive voice.

Photo: By Christoph Rieger [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Rajesh Parameswaran is the author of "I am an executioner" and the collection "I Am An Executioner Love Stories." His work has also been featured in McSweeney's Issue 21. He writes stories that often explore unusual or intense character experiences.