Forrest Anderson's stories have appeared in Blackbird, The Louisville Review, The South Carolina Review, and the North Carolina Literary Review, and his essays have appeared in Fiction Writers Review, The Southeast Review, and Pembroke Magazine. A graduate of the doctoral creative writing program at Florida State University, where he worked for two years as an archivist and assistant for Robert Olen Butler, he also holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of South Carolina. Currently, he lives in Salisbury, NC and is an assistant professor of English at Catawba College.