Jason Ockert has won several national fiction awards and is the author of the short story collection Rabbit Punches.  As winner of the 2010 Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, Jason's second story collection, Neighbors of Nothing, will be published in 2013.  His stories have appeared in many journals, including the Oxford American, Iowa Review, Ecotone, Post Road, and the anthologies New Stories from the South and Best American Mystery Stories. He teaches in the English Department of Coastal Carolina University.