Joshua Howes is an author and screenwriter. His fiction debuted in Ploughshares last year. He served as a Teaching Fellow and earned an MFA from Columbia University; as an undergraduate at Stanford, he won the Bocock-Guerard Prize for fiction. He has been a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, written the BET award-winning short film “Jackson Parish” (2009), sold his first feature script Two Terrorists Meet in 2012, and earned a National Golden Brad for his feature script A House Divided. Raised in Chicago, Howes lives with his wife in Manhattan, where he is writing a novel. Learn more at joshuahowes.com or reach out to him on Facebook.