Jason Ockert
Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, Neighbors of Nothing, and Rabbit Punches. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, he has also been honored by the Atlantic Monthly, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Million Writers Award. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in several journals and anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories, We Can’t Help it if We’re from Florida, Oxford American, The Iowa Review, One Story, Shenandoah, and McSweeney’s.