Pat Rushin teaches creative writing in the English Department at the University of Central Florida, where he has served twice upon a time as editor of The Florida Review.. He has earned degrees from the University of Dayton, the Ohio State University, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. His book of short stories, Puzzling through the News, was published by Galileo Press, and his stories have appeared in various literary magazines, including The North American Review, Indiana Review, North Atlantic Review, Kansas Quarterly, American Review, and a whole bunch of other Reviews. He wrote the screenplay for Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem (starring Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon, and Tilda Swinton), and his novella The Call was recently Published by Burrow Press. His collection of shorts, Quantum Physics & My Dog Bob is due for publication by Burrow Press in 2017.