Paul Bowers earned a B.A. from The University of Tulsa, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Oklahoma State University, and he currently teaches writing and literature at Northern Oklahoma College in Enid, OK. He has published a number of short stories in literary journals, including Southwestern American Literature, Mid-American Review, and Indiana Review, and critical essays on James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, and the Irish poet, John Montague. Honors include Pushcart nominations for fiction and poetry, and the Herman M. Swafford Award for Fiction. His collection of short stories, Like Men, Made Various, was published by Lost Horse Press in March 2006, and his poetry collection, The Lone, Cautious, Animal Life, was published in 2016 by purple flag press.