Richard Lutman has a MFA in Writing from Vermont College. He currently teaches short story classes as part of Coastal Carolina University's Lifelong Learning program. His fiction has appeared in Verdad, Slow Trains, The Green Silk Journal, Dark Sky Magazine, The Bicycle Review, Epiphany Magazine, The Petigru Review, Deep South Magazine, Dew on the Kudzu, The Corner Cupboard Press, The Newport Review, The Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, The Green Briar Review and Prick of the Spindle. He has also won local and national awards for his short stories, nonfiction, and screenplays. He was a 2008 Push