Jackson Culpepper is a writer living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Margaret, two dogs, and two horses. His work has been featured in Auntie Bellum, Paper Darts, and Cartridge Lit, among other literary websites and magazines. He grew up in the South, and his writing struggles with the contradictions of the region — pastoral beauty versus violence, community versus religiosity — to find ways that these universal struggles especially visible in the South and its stories. His work can be found on his website.