Jon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19, an award-winning book publisher. He is queer, a San Francisco resident since 1991 and an explorer of urban change. Roemer studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern.

Jason Schwartzman’s essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Narratively, The Rumpus, Hobart, River Teeth, Nowhere Magazine, Human Parts, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Hippocampus Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a Founding Editor of True.Ink, a revival of the classic adventure magazine. NO ONE YOU KNOW is Schwartzman’s debut book.

David Winner’s Kirkus-recommended novel, Tyler’s Last, concerns Patricia Highsmith and Tom Ripley. His first novel, The Cannibal of Guadalajara, won the Gival Novel Prize and was nominated for a National Book Award. A co-editor of Writing the Virus, an anthology of writings about Covid and these times, he is the fiction editor of The American, a senior editor at Statorec.com, and a frequent contributor to The Brooklyn Rail. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Millions, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Fiction and several other venues in the U.S. and U.K. His latest novel, Enemy Combatant, comes out in March.

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