Dennis McFadden, a retired project manager, lives and writes in a cedar-shingled cottage called Summerhill in the woods of upstate New York. His short story collection Jimtown Road, won the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction; another collection, Lafferty, Looking for Love, was longlisted for Regal House Publishing’s 2021 W.S. Porter Prize. His novel Old Grimes Is Dead was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Indie Books of 2022. His stories have appeared in dozens of other publications including The Missouri Review, New England Review, The Sewanee Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories. Photo by Marionlynn Giroux