Jon Pineda is an award-winning author of three collections of poetry; the memoir Sleep in Me, a 2010 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; and a novel, Apology, winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize. He currently serves as a core member of the MFA faculty at Queens University of Charlotte and teaches at the University of Mary Washington. His latest book, Let's No One Get Hurt, received glowing reviews upon its March 2018 release.