Patrick Madden, author of Disparates (Nebraska, 2020), Sublime Physick (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana (Nebraska, 2010), teaches creative nonfiction at Brigham Young University. He coedited After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (Georgia, 2015) with David Lazar and cotranslated Eduardo Milán's Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2012). Coeditor of the journal Fourth Genre, coeditor of the 21st Century Essays series at Ohio State University Press, and vice president of the NonfictioNOW conference, he maintains an anthology of classical essays and essay resources at http://quotidiana.org/.