Ace Boggess is the author of the novels States of Mercy and A Song Without a Melody, and six books of poetry, including The Prisoners, Escape Envy, Ultra Deep Field, and I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So. He earned his B.A. from Marshall University and his J.D. from West Virginia University. He serves as Senior Editor at The Adirondack Review and Associate Editor at The Evening Street Review. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Hanging Loose, Harvard Review, J Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, and many other journals. His awards include the Robert Bausch Fiction Award and a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. In addition, he was locked up for five years in the West Virginia prison system, an experience which has been the basis for much of his writing. He currently resides in Charleston, West Virginia. This is his first collection of short stories.