When he’s not finding fiction for Tikkun, Josh Bernstein is a writer and an assistant professor of English in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of a novel, Rachel’s Tomb, which won the A.W.P. Award Series and Hackney Prizes; a chapbook, Desert Castles, which won the Wilhelmus Prize at Southern Indiana Review; and a forthcoming story collection, Stick-Light. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared widely, including in Shenandoah, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, Washington Square, and Chicago Quarterly, and won the Gunyon Prize at Crab Orchard Review. His website is writingwar.com.