Peter Korchnak is a Slovak-born writer and a retired yardwork guerrilla in Portland, Oregon, where he brews a decent Cascadian Dark Ale and pots garbage goals in an ice hockey rec league. His nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Compass Cultura, Gravel, Narratively, Star 82 Review as well as THAT Magazine (Istanbul) and Týždeň (Bratislava). In 2014 he won Oregon Quarterly magazine's Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. Find him online at PeterKorchnak.com and on Twitter @peterkorchnak.