Long Jump

written by

Oleg Kazantsev

illustrated by

Adam Brewster

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Oleg Kazantsev was born and raised in eastern Siberia, in the city of Khabarovsk, just miles away from the Chinese border. Life there taught him a lot of things—some more and some less useful—such as: boxing, ballroom dancing, potato farming, calculus III and video game journalism.

After he got his first degree in computer science, Oleg decided that he wanted to try something new, so he attended Columbia College Chicago to study fiction writing in English. Two-and-a-half years later, he found himself tutoring college students and teaching classes in an intermediate school in south Chicago.

As great an experience as it was, teaching writing wasn’t what Oleg wanted to do for the rest of his life, so his next step after graduation was to zigzag back to IT consulting, to free up some time for his passion—writing. That’s where he is right now, but there’s no guarantee that in a year or two his life won’t change completely yet again.

Oleg is twenty-five years old, married and raising a wonderful two-year-old daughter. His stories have appeared in Story Week Reader 2012 and 2013, Elastic Lumberjack, and Every Day Fiction. His comic book With You won the Albert P. Weisman Award in 2012 and can be found on Amazon.com.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Adam Brewster is also the illustrator for “Beyond All Weapons” in this volume. For more information about Adam, please see here.