Lonnie Busch is an award-winning author whose work has also appeared in Southwest Review, the Minnesota Review, the Baltimore Review, and others. His awards include the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, and the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award. He is also a painter, illustrator, and animator who has created artwork for many companies, including the ''Greetings from America'' stamps and ''Wonders of America'' for the USPS.