George Choundas’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in over fifty publications, including The Best Small Fictions 2015, Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Southern Review. His story collection, The Making Sense of Things (FC2), was awarded the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, as well as shortlisted for the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, the St. Lawrence Book Award for Fiction, and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. He is a winner of the New Millennium Award for Fiction, a former FBI agent, and half Cuban/half Greek.