Bryan Hurt is the author of EVERYONE WANTS TO BE AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE (Red Hen, 2018), selected by Alissa Nutting as the winner of the 10th Annual Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is the editor of WATCHLIST: 32 STORIES BY PERSONS OF INTEREST (OR Books/Catapult, 2016) and Editor in Chief of The Arkansas International. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and named finalist for the Calvino Prize and Horatio Nelson Prize in Fiction. He's received fellowships from the Sewanee and Tin House Writers' Conferences. Bryan holds a from PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas.