Stephen Haines is an MFA graduate of Western Washington University and the former managing editor of Bellingham Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming at The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review, Invisible City, Pacifica Literary Review, Epoch Press, Hypertext Magazine, Grim & Gilded, Rathalla Review, Sidereal, Olit, Thin Air, Adelaide, Creative Colloquy, Bright Flash, and Bellingham Review. His short story, “The Life Gutter,” was a finalist for the ProForma Prize at Grist, and his flash story “Too Soon, Too Late” was a finalist for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize.