Joe Kapitan writes from a glacial ridge line located a day's march south of Cleveland. His short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared or will be appearing in PANK, Booth, Wigleaf, Necessary Fiction, a cappella zoo, The Cincinnati Review, Midwestern Gothic, Notre Dame Magazine, and others. His collection of Ohio-based short stories, CAVES OF THE RUST BELT, was published by Tortoise Books in October 2018.