A writer, editor, and educator, Scott Garson grew up in Iowa and spent a number of summers on Lake Okoboji. These days he teaches and coordinates undergraduate creative writing at the University of Missouri. He’s the editor of Wigleaf—a multi Pushcart-Prize-winning journal of very short fiction—and the author of Is That You, John Wayne?—a collection of stories which was an SPD best-seller.
His work has appeared widely, in American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, and others, and has been anthologized in Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Web.