Lucas Southworth’s stories have recently appeared in TriQuarterly, Meridian, Hayden’s Ferry Review, WebConjunctions, DIAGRAM, Willow Springs, and others. His first collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun, won AWP’s Grace Paley Prize (University of Massachusetts Press). He teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, and edits for the Baltimore Review. His website is: everyoneherehasagun.blogspot.com