Brodie Lowe is the recipient of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Fellowship in Fiction and the Author Fellowship of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He is also a two-time finalist of the Ron Rash Award in Fiction. His stories have appeared in The Broad River Review, Mystery Tribune, Eastern Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He has written The Silver Cord (Southern Gothic thriller), Wilder Days (short story collection), and Reaper of Oz (prequel to L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). He is currently writing Beast in the Blood, a direct sequel to H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, and a screenplay based on William Gay’s Twilight. www.brodielowe.com.