Shaun Rouser is a writer based in Chicago. He is the author of Family Affair (Red Bird Chapbooks), The Chef Connection (Alien Buddha Press), Arthur, August 2018 (Anxiety Press), and Let the Scaffolds Fall (Roadside Press). More of his fiction has appeared in Colloquium, RIC Journal, The Rupture, and deLuge Journal. His one-act play, American Meat, was published in Fleas on the Dog. He previously co-founded and served as co-editor-in-chief of online arts and humanities journal The Blackstone Review, where he also contributed fiction and non-fiction.