After receiving his B.A. in English from Colorado State University, C.W. Bigelow lived in nine northern states in the U.S. before moving south to the Charlotte, North Carolina area. His short stories and poems have appeared in Compass, FishFood, Five : 2 : One, Crack the Spine, Sick Lit Magazine, Midway Journal, Poydras Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Glassworks, Blood & Bourbon, The Courtship of Winds, Poetry Super Highway, Drunk Monkeys, and Good Works Review, with stories forthcoming in New Plains Review and Backchannels.