JESSE GOOLSBY’s fiction and essays have appeared in Narrative, the Kenyon Review, Epoch, the Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Greensboro Review, and many other publications. He is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction, and a Holland & Knight Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambridge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. A U.S. Air Force officer, Goolsby was raised in Chester, California, and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida.