Mark Polanzak is author of the hybrid work, POP! (George Mason University/Stillhouse Press). His stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, The American Scholar, The Southern Review, Third Coast, The Pinch, and elsewhere. He is a founding editor for draft: the journal of process, and a contributor to The Fail Safe podcast. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program in fiction, he teaches writing and literature at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Mark lives with his wife near the ocean in Salem, Massachusetts, where he thinks up and works on stories at the coffee shops and bars.