John Fulton is the author of two other books of fiction: Retribution, winner of the Southern Review Short Fiction Award, and the novel More Than Enough, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His short fiction has appeared in the Southern Review, Zoetrope, and the Ontario Review, among other publications, and he has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, short-listed for the O. Henry Award, and cited for distinction in The Best American Short Stories. He lives with his wife and baby daughter in Boston, where he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.