ABOUT CHRISTOPHER:

Christopher Murphy received his MFA from The University of Arkansas and teaches creative writing at Northeastern State University. He reads for Nimrod International Journal. His work has been published at Gulf Coast (online), This Land, Jellyfish Review, Necessary Fiction, and decomP among others. He has a collection of flash fiction, Burning All the Time, coming soon from Mongrel Empire Press.

ABOUT BURNING ALL THE TIME: In twenty-three stories of flash fiction, Burning All the Time focuses on the landscape of Northeastern Oklahoma and the lives that populate it. Ranging from quiet realism to apocalypse and dystopia, from fiction to non-fiction, and from the gritty to the hopeful, Burning All the Time brings a corner of Oklahoma into full literary light.

ABOUT AUSTIN:

Originally from Alabama, Austin Segrest holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Missouri (2014) and an MFA from Georgia State University (2009).

Austin has received fellowships from Ucross Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the NEH. A former poetry editor of The Missouri Review, Austin currently teaches at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.

Austin's first book, Door to Remain, won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. His poems can be found in POETRY, The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, Ecotone, The Common, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. His essays on poetry can be found in APR, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Southern Humanities Review, On the Seawall, and Pleiades.

ABOUT DOOR TO REMAIN:

The poet's fierce, honest reckoning with the mother he lost too early infuses the poems with urgency equal to their artistry. As for the artistry, the music and precision of each poem's construction are deft, true, and absorbing. It’s a book you can inhabit, and that likely will inhabit you.