About the Author

A born-and-bred Hoosier, Rowdy Yates (Jared Yates Sexton) is an expat working as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University. Since earning his MFA from Southern Illinois University in 2008, he has published over sixty stories and articles in publications such as Salon, The Southern Humanities Review, PANK, Hobart, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for a handful of Pushcart's and The Million Writer's Award, was judged a finalist for the New American Fiction Prize by Lee K. Abbott and has been featured in Best of the Net and Wigleaf's Top 50 Fictions. His first book, An End to All Things, was released by Atticus Books in 2012. Split Lip Press will release his next two collections, The Hook and the Haymaker and I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World, in 2015 and 2016, respectively. In his spare time he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine BULL and writes screenplays and covers politics. His website is at jysexton.com and he maintains a Twitter account at @jysexton.