Nick Courage is a New Orleans-born writer—and aspiring skateboarder and baker—who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife (the Young Adult novelist and literary agent Rachel Ekstrom Courage) and their dog, Chaely. His work has recently appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Scholastic’s Storyworks Magazine, The Rumpus, Story, and Writer’s Digest. For more about Nick—and for free teaching resources and school visit information!—visit his website.