Gary V. Powell, a retired lawyer, is also a poet, novelist, and author of short stories and flash fiction. Twice an honorable mention for the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, winner of a 2015 Eric Hoffer Award (Gover Prize for flash fiction), and a finalist for numerous other awards, his fiction can be read in many literary magazines and reviews including the Thomas Wolfe Review, Carvezine,, 2012 Press 53 Awards Anthology, Atticus Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Pisgah Review, Best New Writing 2015, and Sleep is a Beautiful Color: 2017 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. His chapbook, Super Blood Wolf Moon, won Kallisto Gaia Press’s 2020 Contemporary Poetry Prize, and more recent poetry appears in the Main Street Rag and San Diego Poetry Annual.  His novel, Lucky Bastard, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing (2012).