Christopher Mohar has been the recipient of a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship and The Southwest Review’s McGinnis Ritchie Award for fiction. He's taught writing at Mount Mary University, UW Madison, and in a men’s correctional facility, among others. He is the author of "The Denialist's Almanac of American Plague and Pestilence," winner of the Ecthings Press novella prize, and his other selected works can be found in The Mississippi Review, North American Review, Creative Nonfiction, Arts & Letters, Gastronomica, and New Stories from the Midwest (Indiana University Press).