Nat Akin’s short fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, Tampa Review, Ecotone, and Litro. His story “Reno” won the Florida Review‘s 2015 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award, and another was a finalist for the Mid-American Review‘s Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize. He is also a previous recipient of one of the Tennessee Arts Commission’s two annual Fellowships in Literary Arts. “Delivery” is a story adapted from the first chapter of a novel in progress.