James Brubaker lives in Missouri. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in venues including Zoetrope: All Story, Booth, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Normal School, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Web Conjunctions, Sundog Lit, The Collagist, and Monkeybicycle among others. He is the author of Pilot Season (Sunnyoutside), and Liner Notes (Subito). His story collection Black Magic Death Sphere: (Science) Fictions is forthcoming from Urban Farmhouse Press in 2018. Learn more at http://jamesbrubaker.net/