John Minichillo is an assistant professor in the English Department at Middle Tennessee State University,
where he teaches fiction writing, literature, and research writing.
His short stories have appeared in literary journals both in print and
on the Web, and most recently in the short fiction anthology Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Press, 2007), a collection of stories
selected for their adaptability to the screen. He earned a Ph.D. in
Creative Writing from The Center for Writers at The University of
Southern Mississippi and an MFA in Creative Writing from Western
Michigan University. He has worked as a college professor at various
institutions, as a high school English teacher, and as a submissions
reader for a literary journal. He lives in Nashville, happily, with
Katrina and their dogs.
Katrina Gray is a Belmont University student in the Graduate English program, working toward her Master of the Arts in English. Her short story “Apple” appeared in the Belmont Literary Journal in 2006, and in April 2007 she was the recipient of the Graduate Writing Award. She is currently working on Thirty, her first short story collection. She's a Nashville native with a New York editor's brain.
Katrina
John (with Remy and Gramps)