LONNIE BUSCH has worked as a painter and illustrator, creating artwork for corporations and institutions across the United States, including the 2002 "Greetings from America" stamps and the 2004 "Summer Olympics" stamp for the US Postal Service. His short stories have appeared in such publications as The Minnesota Review, The Baltimore Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and The Southeast Review. Stories of his have also been finalists in the World's Best Short Short Story Competition in 2004 and the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction in 2005. His most recent projects include the cover for Jimmy Buffett's latest novel, A Salty Piece of Land, as well as a block of forty new stamps for the Postal Service entitled "Wonders of America," which debuted in May of 2006.