John Christopher Nelson was raised between ninety-four acres of chaparral in San Diego County and a defunct mining town in the Nevada high desert. He earned his BA in American Literature from UCLA, where he was executive editor of Westwind. John is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing, where he has served a variety of roles—including editor-in-chief—on the Stonecoast Review.
Andrew Valentine’s stories have appeared in Literary Orphans, Chagrin River Review, Pioneertown, Poplorish! and the Shrug, among others. He lives and writes in Eugene, OR.