Nick Healy, author of the award-winning short story collection It Takes You Over, has been published in North American Review, Water-Stone Review, Great River Review, Minnesota Monthly, and numerous other journals. His stories have been anthologized in The Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories (Del Sol Press), Blink Again: Sudden Fiction from the Upper Midwest (Spout Press), and elsewhere. His story "And Other Delights" was chosen for the 2005 Speakeasy Prize from The Loft Literary Center/Speakeasy magazine, and "Uncle Ed's Packard" won the Tamarack Award in 2009. It Takes You Over was published in 2012 by New Rivers Press after it won the Many Voices Project fiction award, which is sponsored yearly by the press.