Andrew Farkas is the author of two short fiction collections: SUNSPHERE (BlazeVOX [books], 2019) and SELF-TITLED DEBUT (Subito Press, 2008), and a novel: THE BIG RED HERRING (KERNPUNKT Press, 2019). His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Florida Review, Western Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, including one Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXV and one Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2013. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA from the University of Alabama, an MA from the University of Tennessee, and a BA from Kent State University. He is a fiction editor for The Collagist and an Assistant Professor of English at Washburn University. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.