Adam Tipps Weinstein is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing, and Steffensen-Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. He is also nonfiction editor for Quarterly West. Adam lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Emily, two cats and a dog, and a daughter. His essays can be found in Conjunctions, New Orleans Review, Pank, and curious other places. SOME VERSIONS OF THE ICE (Les Figues Press, 2016) is his first book.