Christian Anton Gerard is a husband and father, a hot-rodder, a boater, and a woodworker. Gerard is the author of Holdfast (C&R Press) and Wilmot Here, Collect for Stella (WordTech). He’s received Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarships and the Iron Horse Literary Review’s Discovered Voices Award. His work appears in places such as, The Rumpus, Post Road, The Adroit Journal, Diode, Ruminate, and Tupelo Quarterly. Gerard is also an associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith.