Sacha A. Howells grew up in Canada, Libya, and Bakersfield, California. He was named a 2012 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2013 Ragdale Foundation Fellow, and a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. He is a co-founder of WordCraft, a collective of writing consultants, teachers, and editors, and is at work on his first novel, about once-and-future hair-metal superstars Juggernott.