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Brian Bedard is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where he directed the creative writing program and also served as Editor of The South Dakota Review from 1995 to 2011. His short stories have appeared widely in such forums as iQuarterly West, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. His first collection of stories, Hour of the Beast and Other Stories, was published by Chariton Review Press. His second collection of stories, Grieving on the Run, won the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award from Snake Nation Press, and was published by Snake Nation Press in 2007 and nominated by that press for the National Book Award in 2008. The South Dakota Council of Teachers of English honored Brian as the 2008 South Dakota Author of the Year. At present he lives with his wife, Sharon, in Spokane, Washington, where he is a member of the English Department at Gonzaga University.