Andrew Bales is a PhD student in the creative writing program at the University of Cincinnati. His fiction has appeared in Tin House online, Gargoyle, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Juked, New Delta Review, and other places. He has received awards from Glimmer Train and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He’s a former associate editor at NANO Fiction and now serves as the digital editor of American Short Fiction.