Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be The Ambassador to France (Red Hen, 2018), winner of the 10th Annual Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is the editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (OR Books/Catapult, 2016) and Midwest editor for Joyland Magazine. His short stories and essays have been published in The American Reader, Guernica, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and many others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Capital University.