Over the years, Gregg Cusick has supported his writing habit through work as a furniture mover, English teacher, paralegal, construction worker, retail manager, among others. His fiction has appeared in more than two dozen journals and has won numerous awards, including the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and The Florida Review Editor's Prize, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He holds a Master's in English/Creative Writing from North Carolina State University and lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he bartends and tutors literacy.