Christopher Swann is chair of the English department at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has taught English for twenty-one years. He attended Woodberry Forest School, an all-male boarding school in Virginia, for all four years of high school. He has a BA with honors from Washington and Lee University, an MA in English/creative writing from the University of Missouri Columbia, and a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University. He now lives in Sandy Springs, Georgia, with his wife and two sons.