Gabriel Packard is the Associate Director of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Hunter College, one of Americarsquo;s most selective creative-writing programs. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate creative writing there, and lectured on self-discipline for writers at Oxford (UK), Cambridge (UK), Yale, Dartmouth College, U. Penn, Cornell, and Princeton. He is the author of the creative-writing guide, A Teacherrsquo;s Guide to Peter Careyrsquo;s His Illegal Self, and the how-to book 100 Best Solitaire Games, and the editor of Ten Years of the Hunter MFA: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Memoir, for which he successfully solicited contributions from Salman Rushdie, Deborah… Eisenberg, Michael Cunningham, Junot Diaz, Russell Banks, Sharon Olds, Jonathan Franzen and approximately 40 other writers. Packardrsquo;s journalism has appeared in more than 100 publications including The Writer, and Poets & Writers, The Village Voice, FHM, and Yahoo! News. In 2007 he was awarded a Hertog Fellowship in fiction, as well as the 2007 Miriam Wienberg Richter Memorial Award for Conspicuous Ability for a paper on narrative structure. In 2008 he was nominated for entry into the Best New American Voices anthology. He is also the Contributing Editor to The Writer magazine.