Adam Shaw lives with his wife and daughter in Louisville, Kentucky and holds an MFA in fiction writing from Concordia University, St. Paul. His short fiction and essays on relationships, masculinity, and fatherhood have appeared in Across the Margin, 1:1000, Sledgehammer Lit, and elsewhere. He can be found on his blog at theshawspot.com and on Instagram and Twitter at @adamshaw502. The Jackals is his first novel.