JEREMY HAWKINS earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the founder and lead editor of The Distillery, a web-based editing service. Hawkins is also an independent bookseller at Flyleaf Books and teaches creative writing at the Carrboro ArtsCenter. He worked for almost ten years at VisArt Video, a family-owned chain of video stores in Chapel Hill/Duram, North Carolina.