Tom Barlow is an Ohio writer. Other stories of his may be found in several anthologies including the Best American Mystery Stories 2013 and Best New Writing 2011 and numerous magazines and journals including Redivider, Temenos, The Apalachee Review, Hobart, Needle, The William and Mary Review, and Hiss Quarterly. Fantasy and science fiction of his may be found in anthologies such as Battlespace, Desolate Places, Hard-boiled Horror, and The Book of Dead Things and magazines including the Intergalactic Medicine Show, Crossed Genres, Digital Science Fiction and Coyote Wild.He has three books now available, the short story collection Welcome to the Goat Rodeo, the science-fiction novel I'll Meet You Yesterday and the mystery novel Everything Is Inevitable.He writes because conversation involves a lot of give and take, and he's always thought of himself as more of a giver.