Joe Oestreich's work has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Creative Nonfiction, Ninth Letter, Fourth Genre, and many other magazines and journals. He's been awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, honored by The Atlantic Monthly, and shortlisted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, The Best American Essays 2008 and 2009, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2010 and 2014. He teaches creative writing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, where he is nonfiction editor of Waccamaw.His second book, Lines of Scrimmage: A Story of Football, Race, and Redemption (co-written with Scott Pleasant), will be published in 2015 by the University Press of Mississippi.