Gerald Duff has published two books of literary criticism, two collections of poetry, and six novels. His work has been nominated for the PEN Faulkner Prize, an Edgar Allen Poe Award, and the International eBook Award. His short story "Fire Ants" won the Cohen Prize from Ploughshares for the best work of fiction published in the magazine in the year of its appearance. He has taught literature and writing at Vanderbilt, Kenyon and Johns Hopkins, and he is currently academic dean at McKendree College.