JUSTIN HOCKING is the author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld. He served as Executive Director of Portland’s Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) from 2006 to mid-2014 and is a recipient of the Willamette Writers' Humanitarian Award for his work in publishing, writing, and teaching, and was named as one of "Ten Writers Who Made Portland" by Willamette Week. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in the Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Normal School, Tin House, Poets & Writers Magazine, and elsewhere. He works as an Assistant Professor in the Critical Studies MA Program at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a full-time faculty member in nonfiction and publishing in the undergraduate and MFA writing programs at Portland State University. He is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship for fiction and four Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant awards. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
