Brit­tany Ack­er­man’s debut essay col­lec­tion, The Per­pet­u­al Motion Machine, was the win­ner of Red Hen Press’s Non­fic­tion Award. She has a cre­ative writ­ing MFA from Flori­da Atlantic Uni­ver­si­ty, and has attend­ed the Writ­ing by Writ­ers Methow Val­ley Work­shop and the Mont Blanc Work­shop in Cha­monix, France, as well as a res­i­den­cy at the Well­stone Cen­ter in the Red­woods. The Brit­tanys is her first novel.