Alan Davis, Professor Emeritus at Minnesota State University/Moorhead and Senior Editor Emeritus at New Rivers Press, grew up in southern Louisiana and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Denver. His three collections of stories, each a prize-winner, are “So Bravely Vegetative”, “Alone with the Owl”, and “Rumors from the Lost World”. He’s co-editor of last year’s “Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan”, and of ten issues of “American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers”. A story from his fourth unpublished collection and the first chapter of his unpublished novel can be found in Solstice Magazine.