Rick Hoffman is the author of the novels, Seven-Sided Son of a Bitch (2022) and The Devils That Haunt You (2016), as well as the short story collection, The Broken Places (2019) and a forthcoming annotated edition of The Great Gatsby. He was born in Pennsylvania, raised in Mississippi and Louisiana, and he currently lives in New York, where he teaches literature and mythology. His fiction has appeared in Driftwood Press, The Tishman Review, Wraparound South, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Edify Fiction, Medusa’s Laugh Press, Flash Fiction Magazine and Entropy Magazine. He was a 2017 Best of the Net nominee for his short story “Biyanî,” about a Yazidi woman fleeing genocide in Northern Iraq.