Jill Meyers is the editorial director of A Strange Object, an Austin-based imprint dedicated to publishing powerful stories and stirring debuts in literary fiction. Titles from A Strange Object have appeared on NPR’s Best Books of the Year list and won a number of industry awards, including The Believer Book Award. Formerly, Jill served as editor for the celebrated literary magazine American Short Fiction. Jill is also the cofounder and chair of Lit Crawl Austin, a freewheeling literary showcase now in its eleventh year, and she serves on the advisory board for the Texas Book Festival. She holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Houston.