Choundas, George: - George Choundas (KOON-duss) is a Cuban- and Greek-American, a former FBI agent, and an NEA Creative Writing Fellow. In addition to I Think I'll Stay Here Forever (winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction), he has published a book of essays, Until All You See Is Sky (winner of the EastOver Prize for Nonfiction) and a book of stories, The Making Sense of Things (winner of the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize). He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee with work in over seventy-five publications, including The Best Small Fictions. His Greek great-grandfather, a fisherman, was murdered by pirates off Aegina. His Cuban great-grandfather, a lumberjack, was killed by a tree off perpendicular by several accelerating degrees.