Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright that lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, he is the author of four novels including The Boy Detective Fails and Hairstyles of the Damned, and two short story collections including Demons in the Spring. His latest novel is The Great Perhaps (W.W. Norton, 2009). He teaches at Columbia College Chicago. Please visit www.joemeno.com

Joe’s work appears in issue #4.