Fred Bubbers lives in western Maryland with his wife, Susan. A native of New York City, Fred received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York at Albany in 1982 and holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in such journals as The Oregon Literary Review, The Green Silk Journal, The Loch Raven Review, The Blue Lake Review, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Ginosko Literary Journal, The Remington Review, and The Rappahannock Review.  His prose chapbook, The RIF, was published in March 2020 by Blue Cubicle Press.