Josh Pachter‘s short fiction has been appearing in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and other periodicals and anthologies since the 1960s. In 2015, Wildside Press published The Tree of Life, a collection of his Mahboob Chaudri stories. He is the editor or co-editor of three anthologies that will be published in 2018: Amsterdam Noir (Akashic Books), The Misadventures of Ellery Queen (Perfect Crime Books), and The Man Who Read Mr. Strang (Crippen & Landru). In his day job, he is the assistant dean for communication studies and theater at Northern Virginia Community College’s Loudoun Campus.