Ron Tanner has published stories widely in such journals as The Iowa Review, New Letters, and Wheelhouse. His awards for short fiction include a Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, and many others. Most recently, he won a 2008 Best of the Web Award and a Story South Million Writers award for fiction. His collection of stories, A Bed of Nails, won both the G.S. Sharat Chandra award and the Towson Prize for Literature and is now in its second printing. He teaches writing at Loyola University-Maryland.