Scott Korb, director of the MFA in Writing program at Pacific University, is the author and editor of several books, including Life in Year One: What the World was Like in First Century Palestine (2010), Light Without Fire: The Making of America’s First Muslim College (2013), and the collection Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy (2014). He is also an editor of The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (2008).