Tobias Seamon is author of the novel The Magician's Study (Turtle Point Press), the fiction collection The Emperor's Toy Chest (PS Publishing UK) and a chapbook of poetry Loosetrife Along the River Styx (Foothills Publishing.) A novella The Fair Grounds is forthcoming in 2011 from PS Publishing as well. He also wrote and directed the short film Amerikan Partizan which premiered at the 2007 Edwood Filmfest. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, other work has appeared such places as Cutbank, McSweeney's, Mississippi Review, Pedestal, Rhysling Anthology, Santa Clara Review, Smartish Pace, and Things Magazine. A contributing writer with the online magazine The Morning News, he lives in Albany, New York.