Ray Morrison spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn, NY and Washington, DC but headed south after college to earn his degree in veterinary medicine and he hasn’t looked north since. He has happily settled in Winston-Salem, NC with his wife and three children where, when he is not writing short stories, he ministers to the needs of dogs, cats and rodents. His debut collection of short stories, “In a World of Small Truths†(Press 53), was released in November, 2012. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, as well as several fiction anthologies. He won First Prize in the Short Story category of the 2011 Press 53 Open Awards and he has twice won Honorable Mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition.