Christopher Lowe is Director of Student Success, College of Education, Northern Illinois University, USA and Instructor in Developmental Editing for Fiction, Editing Certificate Program, University of Chicago Professional Education. He is the author of two story collections and three prose chapbooks. He taught for a decade in the McNeese State MFA program, where he worked with writers on projects that have found homes at Harper Perennial, Knopf, and elsewhere. He is currently a contributing editor for Story Magazine.