Raised in the US and the UK, Scott Carpenter teaches literature and literary theory at Carleton College (MN). A writer of both fiction and non-fiction, he has published extensively on such topics as literary hoaxes and cultural studies, and his short fiction has appeared in such venues as Ducts, Midwestern Gothic, The MacGuffin, Prime Number, Spilling Ink, The Carleton Voice, and many others. His website is located at: http://apps.carleton.edu/people/scarpent/.