Kurt Fawver is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer of horror, weird fiction, and literature that oozes through the cracks of genre. His stories have been previously published in venues such as Nightmare, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Vastarien, Best New Horror, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. His short story collections include Forever, in Pieces, The Dissolution of Small Worlds, and the forthcoming We are Happy, We are Doomed. He lives in northeast Ohio and teaches college courses in writing.