Dan Tremaglio earned degrees in philosophy and eastern classics before completing an MFA in Fiction Writing from Pacific University in 2015. His research interests involve contemporary literature in English, comparative mythology, genre-bending literary fiction, flash fiction, epic poetry, narrative prose poetry, and creative writing pedagogy. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including F(r)iction, Gravel, Tammy, Literary Orphans, and Flash Fiction Magazine, and twice been named a finalist for the Calvino Prize. He has been a senior editor for Bellevue College’s literary journal, Belletrist, since 2016.