Seth Borgen’s first book, If I Die in Ohio, received the New American Fiction Prize. His work has appeared in Story, Harvard Review, Water~Stone, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. He has received a number of honors and prizes including grants from the Ohio Arts Council, a Best of the Net nomination, and the 15th Annual Terrain.org Fiction Award. He received his MFA from the University of Mississippi. Currently, he is the Writer-in-Residence at Western Reserve Academy and lives in northeast Ohio.