A prolific short story writer, EA Luetkemeyer’s fiction has appeared in the literary journals Sou’wester, Opium Magazine, Del Sol Review, Perversion Magazine, The Ilanot Review, Cerasus Magazine, Rhodora, Centrifictionist, and The ShabdAaweg Review. His flash fiction piece, The Southwest Chief, was named a finalist in The Wild Atlantic Writing Awards, and his story Bead by Bead, a finalist in the anthology Stories That Must be Told, a publication of Tulip Tree Press. He is the author of the memoir The Book of Chuck, and the novels Inside the Mind of Martin Mueller, Penitentiary Tales: a Love Story (a finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards), and My Year at the Good Bean Cafe. He has been a martial artist, long-distance runner, outlaw, fugitive, inmate, husband, father, and, by his own admission, sometimes a fool. Awarded an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, in 2015, he now lives and writes in the picturesque Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon, where he is at work on his next novel, The Life and Death of Louie Amato