David Har­ris-Ger­shon is Grand­SLAM sto­ry­telling win­ner for The Moth as well as a pop­u­lar blog­ger on Pales­tin­ian-Israeli issues for Tikkun mag­a­zine, a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Dai­ly Kos, and a peri­od­ic essay­ist for The Jerusalem Post. He received his MFA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na, Wilm­ing­ton, and has pub­lished work in numer­ous venues, includ­ing Col­orado Review, the Pitts­burgh Post-Gazette, and Pas­sages North. He lives with his fam­i­ly in Pittsburgh.