J A BernsteinA Chicago native and Fulbright Scholar, J. A. Bernstein studied Middle Eastern History and Arabic at Brown University and completed a Ph.D. in the Creative Writing & Literature Program at the University of Southern California. He also worked for a huan rights group and served in the Israeli Army. The Director of Graduate Studies in English and an associate professor in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, he is the fiction editor of Tikkun, as well as a contributing editor at Mississippi Review. Read More Read Less