John Messick is a graduate of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks MFA program, and a recipient of the 2013 AWP Intro Journals Prize in Nonfiction. His work has appeared in Tampa Review, Mud Season Review, Rock and Sling, Superstition Review and a number of other literary journals. He recently settled in Soldotna, Alaska, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at Kenai Peninsula College.