Born in 1955 and raised in abject poverty, Bob Thurber spent his adult years working menial jobs while teaching himself to write. He served a lengthy apprenticeship, working at writing every day for twenty years before submitting his work for publication. Since then, his stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including Esquire, and received a long list of literary awards and citations, among them The Marjory Bartlett Sanger Award, The Meridian Editors' Prize, and The Barry Hannah Fiction Prize. Selections have appeared in over 30 anthologies and been utilized in schools and universities as teaching tools. For more information visit: www.BobThurber.net