Ian Ross Singleton is author of the novel Two Big Differences. He is a professor of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany. His short stories, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals such as: Saint Ann's Review; Cafe Review; New Madrid; Midwestern Gothic; Fiddleblack; Asymptote; Ploughshares; The Los Angeles Review of Books and Fiction Writers Review. His short-story collection manuscript Grow Me Up and Other Oaths was a finalist for the 2020 Tartts Fiction Award. He judged the 2024 Hopwood Award contest at the University of Michigan. Ian has taught Creative Writing and Literature for New York Writers Workshop, San Francisco State University, Cogswell Polytechnical College, the Prison University Project, the PEN Prison Writing Program, and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.