Guadalupe Flores is the son of a career military man, and is a veteran himself, so he has called many places home, but uses Texas to store all of his stuff. He has worked in journalism and public relations, as well as a slew of other unremarkable jobs. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of the Incarnate Word in English and theater arts, and is working on a master’s in playwriting at Texas State University in San Marcos, where his full-length play, Hurricane Season, was produced in 2011. The Coyote Stratagem was written in his first semester at Texas State, and was a finalist in the Ten Minute Play category for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. It has since had productions at the Red Barn Theatre in Key West, Florida, and the ArtsCenter’s 10 by 10 in the Triangle Ten Minute Festival in Carrboro, North Carolina, and will be part of the Northern Michigan New Works Festival in 2012. He was a recent participant in the prestigious playwriting intensive at the Kennedy Center, and his paper “Poetic Association: Shakespeare’s Use of the Prologue in Henry V to Enhance Social Status” was presented at the Second Annual International Research Conference for Graduate Students at Texas State University. Flores has a sixteen-year-old son who is, fortunately, smarter and better-looking than he was at that age.