Ian Ross Singleton is a writer, translator, and professor of Writing at Baruch College. His short stories, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals such as New Madrid, Digital Americana, Midwestern Gothic, Fiddleblack, Asymptote, Ploughshares, and several times in Fiction Writers Review. His short story collection manuscript Grow Me Up was a finalist for the 2017 Tartt Fiction Award. He was a student at the University of Michigan and earned an MFA in Fiction from Emerson College.