Rita Banerjeeis an associate professor of creative writing and the director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is coeditor of CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writingand author of Echo in Four Beats, A Night with Kali, and Cracklers at Night. Banerjee is also cowriter of the documentary film Burning Down the Louvre. She cofounded and serves as executive creative director of the Cambridge Writers' Workshop.