Nels Hanson earned degrees from UC Santa Cruz and the U of Montana and his fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and a citation in its Joseph Henry Jackson competition. His stories have appeared in Antioch Review, Texas Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review, Long Story, Short Story, South Dakota Review, Starry Night Review, The Offcourse Journal, Atomjack, Zahir, Word Riot, and other journals. Stories are currently in press at Caveat Lector, Ruminate Magazine, The Avatar Review, The Write Place at the Right Time, and the Overtime Chapbook Series at Blue Cubicle Press.

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