Chris Lowe

Christopher Lowe is the author of Make Some Wretched Fool to Pay (University of Louisiana Press), Those Like Us: Stories (SFASU Press), and three prose chapbooks, including A Guest of the Program, winner of the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize. His writing has appeared widely in journals including Greensboro Review, Quarterly West, Booth, Yemassee, Third Coast, and Bellevue Literary Review. He taught for a decade in the MFA program at McNeese State University where he worked closely with writers on a wide range of fiction manuscripts, including novels published by Harper Perennial and Penguin Random House and short stories published in Best American Short Fiction, Harper's Magazine, and other journals and magazines. As an editor, he has worked for numerous literary journals including The McNeese Review, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Midway Journal, and Fifth Wednesday Journal. Currently, he is a program advisor at Northern Illinois University and a contributing editor at Story Magazine.