Journalist Maurice Chammah is the author of Let The Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty and a staff writer for The Marshall Project. His reporting on the criminal justice system has been published by the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other publications. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he co-organizes The Insider Prize, a fiction and essay contest for incarcerated writers sponsored by American Short Fiction.