Matt Meade is a parent, misanthrope, and wrestling school dropout who lives in the Chicagoland area. He has previously delivered newspapers, worked in a library, planted trees, and served coffee for a living, but he doesn’t do any of those things anymore. His fiction has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Bourbon Penn, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Rocketflower, won the C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Contest. His debut fiction collection, Strip Mall, is available from Tailwinds Press. Sometimes he has a mustache.