Matt Meade is a parent, misanthrope, and wrestling school dropout who lives in the Chicagoland area. He has previously delivered newspapers, worked in a library, planted trees, and served coffee for a living, but he doesn’t do any of those things anymore. His is the winner of hte 2021 Summer Tide Pool chapbook contest, and his fiction has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Bourbon Penn, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. His first full length collection, Strip Mall, is forthcoming from Tailwinds Press in November of 2023. Some of his work, as well as the one good picture he has of himself, can be found at www.matthewthomasmeade.com [2]. Sometimes he has a mustache.