Marley Stuart is an Assistant Editor of Louisiana Literature and a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. His stories and poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, Permafrost, SPEAK The Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Xavier Review, The Healing Muse, and elsewhere. He and his wife, the writer Kimberly Dawn Stuart, live in New Orleans and direct the small press River Glass Books.