Taylor Plimpton is the author of Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark and the co-editor of The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays. He regularly contributes to Sports Illustrated, Town & Country, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Paris Review Daily, The Rumpus, and many other periodicals. His nonfiction pieces have been named "Notable Essays" in Best American Essays for several years, and he works as an editor and writing professor.