Doug Brown lives in Grove City, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Susan. Doug holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Penn State. He is a winner of the Katie Lehman Award for Fiction. His story, Wendy Wafers Tart and Tangy, received honorable mention in the Globe Soup 2022 Open Short Story Competition, and his story, Cats, was shortlisted for the 2023 Khasi Hills Creative Prize. Recently, Doug’s fiction has appeared in BarBar, Half and One, Solid Food Press, and The Pink Hydra, and his short story collection, My Bohemian Baptism and Then Some, was released by Serif Press in October 2023.