Paul Luikart is the author of the short story collections Animal Heart (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016), Brief Instructions (Ghostbird Press, 2017), Metropolia (Ghostbird Press, 2021), and The Museum of Heartache (Pski’s Porch Publishing, 2021.) His work is included in 2019's Best Microfiction anthology from Pelekinesis Press and he is the 2019 winner of Nassau Review's Writer Award in Prose. He has twice (2015, 2018) been selected to attend writing residencies at the Collegeville Institute of Ecumenical and Cultural Research. His MFA in fiction writing is from Seattle Pacific University. He serves as an adjunct professor of fiction writing at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He and his family live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.