Poe Ballantine, born 1955 in Denver, Colorado, is a novelist, essayist & journalist based in Chadron, Nebraska, who has written & published 7 novels & memoirs. His essays & fiction have appeared in The Sun & in Gobshite Quarterly, among other places. His stories, fueilletons, flash fiction, & essays have appeared in Best American Stories, & Best American Essays. A frequent contributor, he returns with a fueilleton published in parallel English/Spanish/Croatian/Icelandic text, In Memory of Fancypants McTeo / En memoria de disfraz Mcteo / U znak sjecanja na Ficfiric Pametnjakovica Bogicca / I minni fint buxur McTeo.