Raised throughout the Midwest and parts of Ohio, much of my perspective of the world is forged through this lense, through haystacks and rolling farmland, as well as post-industrial America. I have a crushing sadness and reverence for humanity in my heart and a curiosity for life’s truest experiences and emotion. My fiction can be short and blunt like me, but oftentimes it is also observant, respectful, and surprising. This is my home, I hope you find a place for yourself here.

Christopher Bowen is the author of the chapbook We Were Giants, the novella When I Return to You, I Will Be Unfed, and the non-fiction Debt. He was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Competition and honorable mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards in the non-fiction category. His short story collection, The Things They Forgot to Tell Us When They Left, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press.