Francois Camoin is the retired director of the creative writing program at the University of Utah. His work has appeared in the "Kenyon Review," "Playboy," the "Mid-American Review," the "Missouri Review," and "Nimrod," among other publications. Camoin has received the Associated Writing Program's Award for Fiction and the Salt Lake City Mayor's Artist Award. He is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction including, most recently, the story collection "April, May, and So On."