Jesse Goolsby - I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them

— my University of Tennessee family, especially Allen Wier, Marilyn Kallet, and Michael Knight.

— my Air Force Academy family, especially Jim Meredith, George Luker, Richard Lemp, Ann Reagan, Thomas Bowie, Gary Mills, Wilson Brissett, Bill Newmiller, Max Despain, James Bishop, Kathy Binns, and Jeanette Millar.

— my Wolfpack family.

— Tom and Jackie Quinn.

— Ben Oneto, Tim Campbell, Matt Bateman, Nicholle Tognotti, Glenda Grant, Dave Willhardt, and Kurt Martinson.

— Greg Killingsworth, Paul Hardig, Phil Bryant, and Dave Taylor.

— the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.

— the community of writers, artists, journals, and magazines that has supported my work.

Most importantly, with all my heart,

— my wife, Sarah, and children, Ella, Owen, and Abby.

JESSE GOOLSBY’s fiction and essays have appeared in Narrative , the Kenyon Review, Epoch , the Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review , the Greensboro Review , and many other publications. He is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction, and a Holland & Knight Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambridge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. A U.S. Air Force officer, Goolsby was raised in Chester, California, and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida.