Kirk Sever teaches writing at three colleges in the Los Angeles area and is a Fiction Editor at Mayday Magazine. His film, music, and book reviews appear in The Colorado Review, No Ripcord, the Literary Review, and Rain Taxi, and his stories and poetry were featured in Permafrost, Storgy, and The New Short Fiction Series. In addition to being recognized by the Academy of American Poets, Kirk's short story collection, They Crawl to the Surface, was semi-finalist in Ohio State's The Journal Book Prize. Currently, Kirk is editing the last twenty pages of his novel, Bruises That Won't Heal.