Emmy Award-winning filmmaker J.J. Abrams has produced directed or written films and
television shows including Fringe Lost Alias Felicity Star Trek Cloverfield Super 8
Mission: Impossible and more. Doug Dorst teaches writing at Texas State University-San Marcos.
He is author of the PEN Hemingway-nominated novel Alive in Necropolis and the collection The
Surf Guru. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Ploughshares Epoch and elsewhere. Dorst is
also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.