Andy Duncan teaches freshman English at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he is working on a masters of fine arts. In 1995, he graduated from North Carolina State University in Raleigh with an MA from the creative writing department. Originally from Batesburg, South Carolina, Mr. Duncan also spent seven years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although “Beluthahatchie” is his first fiction sale, he has since sold stories to Negative Capability and Starlight I. The author is currently at work on an alternate-history novel.