Josh Rolnick’s short sto­ry col­lec­tion, Pulp and Paper, won the John Sim­mons Short Fic­tion Award. His short sto­ries have also won the Arts & Let­ters Fic­tion Prize and The Flori­da Review Edi­tors’ Choice Prize, and have been pub­lished in Boule­vard, Merid­i­an, Har­vard Review, Belling­ham Review, Gulf Coast, and oth­ers. His most recent short sto­ry, ​“Kinder­trans­port,” was pub­lished in Paper Brigade, the lit­er­ary annu­al of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. Rolnick’s poet­ry has appeared in Tel Aviv Review of Books; his essay about his daughter’s ele­men­tary school lock­down drills appeared in Slate. He is a fac­ul­ty lec­tur­er at the Johns Hop­kins MA in Writ­ing Pro­gram and fic­tion edi­tor of Paper Brigade. Rol­nick cur­rent­ly serves as the Vice Pres­i­dent of the Board of Direc­tors of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. He is a facil­i­ta­tor for Reset­ting the Table, pro­mot­ing coura­geous con­ver­sa­tions across polit­i­cal divides.