Andrew Farkas is a serial academic who hopes someday to be a professor of creative writing. He currently has degrees from Kent State University (BA), the University of Tennessee (MA), the University of Alabama (MFA), and he is now working on his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In these various programs Andrew Farkas has, along with taking classes, taught many classes including the ever exciting English 101 and 102, plus late American Literature, late British Literature, and various Creative Writing classes (his favorite).

Thus far, Andrew Farkas has been published in such journals as Northwest Review, New Orleans Review, Pank, Berkeley Fiction Review, The Brooklyn Rail, amongst other journals. He was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story that appeared in Harpur Palate, but he did not win. Andrew Farkas has also been a finalist in the Chiasmus Press First Book Award and a semifinalist in the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. Whereas he did not win in these cases, Andrew Farkas has been informed that he was pre-approved for manymany credit cards which he thinks is rather like winning, anyway.

Square fact: Is so addicted to buying books that he thinks of Amazon as his crack dealer.

Cool fact: Once talked to cult movie star Bruce Campbell for 45 minutes on the phone.