Jason Lee Brown is Series Editor of New Stories from The Midwest (Indiana University Press) and a contributing editor of River Styx. His writing has been nominated for six Pushcart Prizes and appeared in numerous literary journals, most recently The Literary Review, The Journal, Ecotone, Crab Orchard Review, and KROnline. He teaches writing at Eastern Illinois University and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.