Greg Gerke is the author of the essay collection See What I See, the story collection Especially the Bad Things, and the novel In the Suavity of the Rock, all of which are published by Splice. His work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is the editor of the online journal Socrates On the Beach and he lives in New York.