Ea LuetkemeyerA prolific short story writer, EA Luetkemeyer's fiction has appeared in the literary journals Sou'wester, Opium Magazine, Del Sol Review, Perversion Magazine, The Ilanot Review, Cerasus Magazine, Rhodora, Centrifictionist, and The ShabdAaweg Review. is flash fiction piece, "The Southwest Chief," was named a finalist in The Wild Atlantic Writing Awards, and his story "Bead by Bead," a finalist in the anthology Stories That Must be Told, a publication of Tulip Tree Press. He is the author of the memoir "The Book of Chuck," and the novels "Inside the Mind of Martin Mueller" and "Penitentiary Tales: a Love Story," a finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. He has been a martial artist, a long distance runner, an outlaw, a fugitive, an inmate, a husband and father, and, by his own admission, sometimes a fool. Awarded an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, in 2015, he lives and writes in the picturesque Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon where, with inspiration from his capricious Muse, Miranda, he is at work on his next novel, "The Life and Death of Louie Amato."For excerpts and reviews of his work, visit www.ealuetkemeyer.com. Read More Read Less