Annie Weatherwax is a writer and an artist. Winner of the Robert Olen Butler Prize for Fiction, her short stories have appeared in The Sun Magazine, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She has written extensively on the synergy between the mind and the eye, and the link between language and visual art including for Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, and regularly for Ploughshares Blog. Weatherwax received the 2017 Hamilton School Life Achievement Award. The award has been given annually for 23 years to accomplished individuals with dyslexia. Past recipients include Dannel P. Malloy, Connecticut Governor, Dr. Matthew Schneps, astrophysicist, the Smithsonian and Harvard University, and Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Philip Schultz. Weatherwax is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and for years earned a living sculpting superheroes and cartoon characters for Nickelodeon, DC Comics, Pixar, and others. Her debut novel, All We Had, published by Scribner, was an Oprah's Pick, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and is now a major motion picture from Tribeca films. For more information please visit www.annieweatherwax.com