Dean Gessie is a writer and poet who has won multiple international prizes. Dean was the winner of the Bacopa Literary Review Short Story Contest in Florida. In England, Dean was a finalist in the Bath Short Story Award, the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Brighton Prize. In Ireland, Dean was short-listed in the Fish Poetry Contest and he was a finalist in the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. In Australia, Dean was shortlisted for the Fair Australia Poetry Prize and the Melbourne Poets Union Poetry Contest. In Canada, Dean was named a finalist in the Writers’ Community of Simcoe County, Short Fiction Contest. He has also published three novellas with Anaphora Literary Press: Guantanamo Redux, A Brief History of Summer Employment and TrumpeterVille.