Vincent Czyz is the author of a collection of short fiction (Eric Hoffer Award for Best in Small Press), a novel, a novella, and an essay collection. He is the recipient of two fiction fellowships from the NJ Council on the Arts, the W. Faulkner-W. Wisdom Prize for Short Fiction, and the 2011 Capote Fellowship at Rutgers University. His stories have appeared in Shenandoah, AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, Southern Indiana Review, Tampa Review, Tin House, and December, among other publications.