Vincent Czyz is the author of ADRIFT IN A VANISHING CITY a collection of short fiction that was awarded the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for Best in Small Press; The Christos Mosaic, a novel; and The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi, a novella. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the NJ Council on the Arts, the W. Faulkner-W. Wisdom Prize for Short Fiction, and the Truman Capote Fellowship at Rutgers University. His work has appeared in many publications, including New England Review, Shenandoah, AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Georgetown Review, Tin House, Tampa Review, Copper Nickel, Skidrow Penthouse, and Boston Review.