Ian Stansel is the author of the novel The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) an Amazon “Best Book of 2017,” and two short story collections: Glossary for the End of Days (Acre Books, 2020) and Everybody’s Irish (Five Chapters, 2013), a finalist for the prestigious PEN/Bingham Prize. He has published stories and essays at venues including Ploughshares, Salon, Joyland, Bennington Review, and Poets & Writers. He is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Louisville.