Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection The World Doesn't Require You, which was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and winner of the Towson Prize for Literature. His debut story collection, Insurrections, was awarded the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Best Small Fictions, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and The Rumpus, among others. He teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.