Chad B. Anderson is a writer and editor living in Washington, D.C. Born and raised in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, he earned his B.A. in American studies and English from the University of Virginia and his M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University, where he served as fiction editor for Indiana Review. He has been a resident at the Ledig House International Writers' Colony, and his fiction is published in Salamander Review, Black Warrior Review, Nimrod International Journal, and Best American Short Stories 2017. He has also published nonfiction with The Hairsplitter and several articles and reports on higher education. Visit Anderson’s website at chadbanderson.com.