Stace Budzko has recently been published in Southeast Review, Smoke­long Quarterly, Long Story Short, The Binnacle, and Diner. His work can be found in Norton’s Flash Fiction Forward and Rose Metal Press’s Brevity and Echo. He was a finalist for the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, the 2006 Richard Yates Short Story Award, and the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College where he currently teaches writing. In addition, he is the writer-in-residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. At present, he is working on his first novel.