Edward Belfar lives with his wife in Maryland and works as a writer and editor.  He is the author of the novel A Very Innocent Man, published by Flexible Press in 2023, and Wanderers, a collection of short stories published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2012.  His fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Tampa Review, Confrontation, Natural Bridge, and numerous other publications.  For more information and to contact the author, please visit http://www.edwardbelfar.com/ [2].