Luke Whisnant is the author of Watching TV with the Red Chinese, a novel, and Street, a chapbook of poems. His work has appeared in Esquire, Arts & Letters, American Short Fiction, and others, and has been anthologized in This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, and Racing Home: New Stories by Award-Winning North Carolina Writers. Three of his pieces have been reprinted in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best. He teaches creative writing and literature at East Carolina University, in Greenville, NC.