About the Author
Joshua Cross is the author of聽Black Bear Creek: Stories (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Independent Press Award for Short Story Collections. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in聽Beloit Fiction Journal, Big Muddy, Failbetter, Puerto del Sol,聽and elsewhere. A native West Virginian, he now lives with his wife and son in Conway, SC, where he is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University and Fiction Editor of聽Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature.聽He is also a graduate from 海角社区 University, Class of 2003, and the first alumnus to be featured as the Common Reading author.