Avery IronsAvery Irons was born and raised in central Illinois. She is the author of the novella Glass Men, which won Big Fiction magazine's Novella Prize, and short fiction that has appeared in the African American Review, Ragazine, and Sinister Wisdom. She hods an MFA in creative writing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received support for the completion of Belonging to the Air through the Kimbilio Novel Mentorship Program. Read More Read Less