Jordan A. Rothacker is the author of the novels: The Pit, and No Other Stories (Black Hill Press, 2015); And Wind Will Wash Away (Deeds, 2016); and My Shadow Book by Maawaam (Spaceboy Books, 2017); and the short story collection, Gristle: weird tales (Stalking Horse Press, 2019). December 2021 will see the release of an anthology in tribute to the Comte de Lautreamont, The Celestial Bandit (Kernpunkt Press), edited by Rothacker and featuring twenty-four of today's coolest writers. His essays, reviews, interviews, poetry, and fiction have appeared in such publications as The Exquisite Corpse, Guernica, Bomb Magazine, Entropy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Brooklyn Rail, Rain Taxi, Dead Flowers, Literary Hub, and The Believer.He lives in Athens, Georgia, where he received a MA in Religion and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia.