Wayne Courtois was born in Portland, Maine, and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri with his husband. His other works include the award-winning memoir A Report from Winter and the novels A Pardoner’s Tale and In the Time of Solution 9. His short fiction has appeared in journals including The Greensboro Review and Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly; in the webzines suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and Velvet Mafia; and in anthologies such as Of the Flesh, Love Under Foot, Best Gay Erotica (2005 and 2008), Out of Control, Country Boys, and College Boys. Nonfiction work has appeared in I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage; Walking Higher: Gay Men Write about the Deaths of Their Mothers, Alexander Renault, ed.; and The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, Tom Cardamone, ed. Poetry has appeared in journals: Chelsea Station Magazine, Assaracus, and I-70 Review. Anthologies: Hibernation: Poems by Bear Bards; Gimme Your Lunch Money: Heartland Poets Speak Out Against Bullies; The Shining Years. His first poetry collection, The Old Ambassador and Other Poems, was published in March 2023.