Gary Lutz’s work includes two volumes of short fiction, Stories in the Worst Way (1996) and I Looked Alive (2003). His work has also appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, the Cimarron Review and many other literary magazines and journals. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he edits 5 Trope, a publication dedicated to new forms of writing.