Joe P. Squance is an adjunct instructor of creative writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Fiction Southeast, Cease Cows, Monkeybicycle, Everyday Fiction, Juked, Menacing Hedge, and elsewhere, and he has written essays for Salon, Runner's World, Sinkhole, and Organic Life. He is the recipient of a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, and he lives in Oxford with his wife and their young daughter.