Bret Anthony Johnston is the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and the author of Corpus Christi: Stories, both from Random House. He teaches at Harvard University, where he directs the creative writing program, and at the Bennington Writing Seminars. (updated 1/2010)

His story “Caiman,” first published in AGNI 69, is reprinted in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 2010.