Vincent Czyz is the recipient of the 1994 W. Faulkner-W. Wisdom Prize for Short Fiction as well as two grants from the NJ Council on the Arts. The 2011 Truman Capote Fellow at Rutgers University, he has placed stories in Shenandoah, AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Georgetown Review, Quiddity, Tampa Review, Tin House (online), Louisiana Literature, Southern Indiana Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Camera Obscura, and Archaeopteryx, among other publications. He lives in Jersey City, NJ with his wife, Neslihan.