Jared McCormack is a writer, teacher, and podcaster originally from rural Missouri. After living abroad for several years, he returned to his home state to earn an MFA in Creative Writing and Media Arts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he was chosen as the 2020 Gary William Bargar Award winner and the 2021 Barbara Storck Award winner for fiction. He's been an intern with the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast from LitHub, and he’s currently the host and co-producer of the MFA Writers podcast. He teaches digital storytelling at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, New Letters, Sonora Review, and The New Thing (formerly Hobart's Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo). You can find him at jaredmccormack.com.