R. Clifton Spargo is a Chicago-based novelist and cultural critic who writes "The HI/LO" for Huffington Post. An Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a graduate of the doctoral program in literature at Yale University, he has published stories and essays in The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, FICTION, Raritan, Commonweal, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. He created and regularly teaches a testimonial writing workshop on gender-based violence for The Voices and Faces Project.