Zachary Tyler Vickers is the author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the recipient of the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Richard Yates Prize, the Clark Fisher Ansley Prize for excellence in fiction, and the Petrichor Audio Magazine Reprint Award. He has been a finalist for the Calvino Prize, the Gertrude Stein Award, and the ProForma Prize.