Mike Meginnis is the author of Drowning Practice (2022, Ecco) and Fat Man and Little Boy (2014, Black Balloon). His short fiction and essays have appeared in Hobart, PANK, The Lifted Brow, Recommended Reading, Booth, The Pinch, The Collagist, The Sycamore Review, Fanzine, American Book Review, and Writer's Digest. His story "Navigators" appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012. He lives and works in Iowa City.

Mike also cohosts the podcast Gift Horse with his partner, Tracy Rae Bowling.

The above photo was taken by David Greedy in February of 2021. It had been more than a year since my last haircut. It wasn’t safe for us to be inside, so we shot outside in the snow. Here’s a bonus photograph from that same day; it’s me with an umbrella: