Mark Kramer is the founding director of the Power of Narrative Conference. He has co-edited two leading texbook/readers on narrative nonfiction: Telling True Stories and Literary Journalism. He's finishing up a handbook about revision for storytelling journalists. He's written four books: Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy, Three Farms, Invasive Procedures, and Travels with a Hungry Bear. Kramer has written for the NY Times Sunday Magazine, National Geographic, the Atlantic Monthly and other periodicals. He's been writer-in-residence in American Studies at Smith College, and writer-in-residence and founding director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University, and was professor of journalism and writer-in-residence at Boston University. Kramer leads the "Kitchen Workshop" for professional writers with book projects. He's also helped found ongoing narrative conferences in Amsterdam, Bergen (Norway), and London.