Shane Bailey, 37, lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. When he is not at his full-time office job, he divides his time between reading and writing fiction. The authors who have influenced him the most are Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf, as well as a few others. His short stories have been published by Rosebud, Salome Magazine, Litbits, Debris Magazine, and Out of the Gutter.