Beck Dorey-Stein is the author of From the Corner of the Oval (Spiegel and Grau), a memoir of her years working (and dating) in the Obama White House.

In 2012, Dorey-Stein was working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate D.C. outsider, she joined the elite team who accompanied the president wherever he went—recorder and mic in hand.

As she learned to navigate White House protocols and more than once ran afoul of the hierarchy, Dorey-Stein became romantically entangled with a consummate D.C. insider, and suddenly the political became all too personal.

Grayson Capps is a singer-songwriter based on the Alabama Gulf coast. His latest album is Scarlett Roses (Royal Potato Family).

Capps’ songwriting blends his literary sense of story with roadhouse musical chops.

Blurt magazine says, "His songs are literate, imaginative, and sometimes magical, his storytelling skills matched by an uncanny sense of musical history that will grow on you like kudzu vine."

Amy Andrews