Joseph Ponepinto has lived in a dozen locations around the country, and currently writes in Washington State. He was (in no particular order) a journalist, a short order cook, a mayoral assistant, a chauffeur, a small business owner, a stock boy, a part-time college instructor, and a few other things before turning to fiction writing. He’s the co-founder and Fiction Editor of Tahoma Literary Review and a former Book Review Editor for The Los Angeles Review. His stories and criticism have been published in dozens of literary journals both in the U.S. and Australia. He holds an MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. Joe teaches at Tacoma Community College.