Whitney Terrell is the New Letters Writer-in-Residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is a graduate of Princeton University and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first novel, The Huntsman, was a New York Times Notable Book. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Details, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Observer, the Kansas City Star, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was an embedded reporter in Iraq during 2006 and 2010 and covered the war for the Washington Post Magazine, Slate, and NPR. He was born and raised in Kansas City.