Jason Schossler received his M.A. in fiction in 2000. His thesis was titled Prospect Road and Other Stories. His stories and poems have appeared in The Sun, Poet Lore, Rattle, Willow Springs, Pearl Blue Mesa Review, Evansville Review, Southern Indiana Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, The MacGuffin, Notre Dame Review, Indiana Review, Event, North Dakota Quarterly and U.S. Catholic, and Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. He has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Oberpfãlzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, and was a semi-finalist for the 2006 and 2007 "Discovery"/The Nation poetry prize.