Barry Kitterman is the author of The Baker's Boy, a novel, and a collection of stories, From the San Joaquin. He has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and at the Hambidge Center in Georgia, and he has received grants from the Tennessee Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts. He is Professor Emeritus at Austin Peay State University, where he served as the longtime fiction editor of Zone 3 Magazine.