Welcome to the new crop of writers joining the WWPH cooperative press family! I again participated in the fiction editorial team headed by the press’ fiction VP Kathleen Wheaton. This year’s winning fiction manuscript by Varun Gauri provides a thoughtful, smart, and perceptive look at “arranged marriages” in the young Indian American immigrant community. I was complete immersed in the story and will be looking forward to reading the final published version later this year.