Mark Brazaitis was a Peace Corps volunteer and technical trainer in Guatemala from 1991 to 1993 and 1995 to 1996. His stories have appeared in the Sun, Greensboro Review, Western Humanities Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, and other literary magazines. A native of Washinton, D.C., he teaches English at the Helene Fuld College of Nursing in Harlem, New York.