Ryan Shoemaker’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Monkeybicycle, Santa Monica Review, Grist: The Journal for Writers, and Silk Road Review. Ryan is currently a Ph.D. student in the University of Southern California’s Literature and Creative Writing Program.  The highlight of his illustrious literary career was once sharing a plate of bacon with George Saunders in an Athens, Ohio cafe. Look for Ryan at RyanShoemaker.net.