Rob Swigart is a fiction writer and former poet, professor, technology journalist, computer game designer, archaeology writer, and futurist. He has authored 16 books, one of which was nominated for a BSFA Best Novel Award. His hybrid of fiction and nonfiction stories, Mixed Harvest, won a 2019 Nautilus Gold Award. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antaeus, Atlantic Monthly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Epoch, Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, New York Quarterly, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Deadly Writers Patrol, Jet Fuel Review, Sublunary Review, Stonecoast Review, South Carolina Review, and mojo.