Aaron Brown is a poet and novelist raised in Chad, who lives now with his wife Melinda in Kansas. He holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, and his work has been published in Tupelo Quarterly, The Portland Review, Dappled Things, and Sojourners, among others. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Winnower(Wipf & Stock, 2013) and novella Bound (2012). He is an assistant professor of writing at Sterling College. Visit his website at www.writingtheinbetween.com.