Mark Lyons' collection of short stories, BRIEF EULOGIES AT ROADSIDE SHRINES, was chosen as a 2015 Kirkus Book of the Year. He has also edited two bilingual books: DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES/SUEÑOS Y PESADILLAS, a memoir by a fourteen-year-old girl who fled Guatemala and traveled alone to the United States; and ESPEJOS Y VENTANAS/MIRRORS AND WINDOWS: ORAL HISTORIES OF MEXICAN FARMWORKERS. He is director of the Philadelphia Storytelling Project.