Tom Gartner received a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of California Santa Cruz.  His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals, including Whetstone, California Quarterly, The Madison Review, Twelve Winters, and Valparaiso Review.  One story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.   He lives in California, just north of the Golden Gate, and works as a buyer for an independent bookstore in San Francisco.