Jeffrey Wade GibbsJeffrey Wade Gibbs was born and raised in rural Florida, shuttling back and forth between his mother's people in Lakeland and his father's in the north central lake region. He grew up fishing, boating, and wandering the woods while learning the dark wists and turns of his Southern heritage at his father's side. He attended the University of Central Florida where he majored in creative writing and then left the South to teach English in Tokyo. Since then, he has made his way around the world, working as a teacher and writer in Japan, India, and now Turkey, where he lives with his wife and son. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and was fortunate enough to take workshops from visiting writers, Barbara Kingsolver and F. Scott Momaday. He also studied under the late Oprah Book Club author, Aurelie Sheehan. His short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Chaotic Merge, Diagram, Fiction Southeast, 3am, The Opiate, The Sand Journal, A Minor, Hyperallergic, The Boston Review, and Big Truths Little Fictions, among others. Read More Read Less