Brian Gresko is a writer and the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood (Penguin, 2014). His fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications, most recently Longreads. He teaches creative writing at Sackett Street and Catapult and cohosts Pete's Reading Series, Brooklyn's longest-running reading project.