About the Author

Joseph Bates is the author of Tomorrowland: Stories (Curbside Splendor, 2013) and The Nighttime Novelist (Writer's Digest, 2010). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Rumpus, The South Carolina Review, Identity Theory, Lunch Hour Stories, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, and Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market.  He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Cincinnati and teaches in the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Visit the author online at www.josephbates.net or contact him at batesjr[at]miamioh.edu.

In the mood for a story?  Read "Mirrorverse" in The Rumpus or "How We Made A Difference" in Identity Theory.