Tom Whalen is the author of Winter Coat (Short Works Series), published by Red Dust in 1999. His fiction has appeared recently or is forthcoming in The Idaho Review, Northwest Review, The Iowa Review, Fiction International, AGNI, The Styles, The Texas Review, First Intensity, The Hopkins Review, The Literary Review, New Ohio Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: The Novels of Russell H. Greenan (Dalkey Archive) will be released in July, 2011. He teaches film at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany. He lives in Stuttgart, Germany. (updated 4/2011)