Nathan Ballingrud (nathanballingrud.com) was born in Massachusetts in 1970 but has spent most of his life in the South. He's worked as a bartender in New Orleans and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His stories have appeared in several Year's Best anthologies, and he has twice won the Shirley Jackson Award. His first collection, North American Lake Monsters, was the basis for the Hulu TV show Monsterland. His second collection, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell includes the novella The Visible Filth which was filmed by Babak Anvari as Wounds. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.
