Aaron Gwyn was born in Tulsa and raised on a cattle ranch near Little, Oklahoma. He is the author of a novel, The World Beneath (W.W. Norton), and a story collection, Dog on the Cross (Algonquin Books), which was a finalist for the 2005 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. His short stories and essays on craft have appeared in numerous magazines, including Esquire, McSweeney’s, Glimmer Train, The Gettysburg Review and Poets & Writers. His fiction has also been published in anthologies, such as New Stories from the South (Algonquin Books) and Best of the West: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri (University of Texas Press).