Vincent James Perrone is the author of the poetry collection Starving Romantic, a contributor to the anthology Collected Voices in the Expanded Field, the winner of the Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction, and a finalist for the Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize. His recent and forthcoming work can be found in Wigleaf, Split Lip Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and The West Trade Review. Vincent serves as the fiction editor for Meridian.