Michael Fischer is a faculty member at the Odyssey Project at Illinois Humanities, a free college credit program for income-eligible adults. He is a Luminarts Cultural Foundation fellow, Illinois Arts Council grantee, and finalist for the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship. Michael’s nonfiction appears in The New York Times, Salon, The Sun, Lit Hub, Orion, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. His piece in Hotel Amerika…