Ashton Politanoff is a frequent contributor to Noon, edited by Diane Williams. His writing has also appeared in Southwest Review, Conjunctions, NY Tyrant, Egress, and elsewhere. He is a former division I tennis player and his childhood coach was Robert Lansdorp, who is credited with coaching Pete Sampras, Tracy Austin, and Maria Sharapova. Politanoff's first novel, You'll Like It Here was published by Dalkey Archive. He is an English professor at Cypress College.