Matt Peters holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Full Sail University and runs Beating Windward Press. His fiction has been published in the journals 580 Split, Burrow Press Review, the Burlesque Press Variety Show; and in the anthologies Voices Rising: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project, Bits of the Dead, Keeping Track, Forget How You Found Us, Gutters and Alleyways, and Crossing Lines.