JUSTIN COURTER's short stories and poems have been published in The Berkeley Fiction Review, Fugue, Many Mountains Moving, Fourteen Hills, The Literary Review, New Orleans Review, LIT, Northwest Review, Pleiades, Main Street Rag, Phantasmagoria, Apalachee Review, North Dakota Review, Pearl and other journals. Skunk: A Love Story is his first published novel. His unpublished novel, Cadenza, was shortlisted for the Graywolf Press S. Mariella Gable Prize, and his short story collection was selected as semi-finalist for the 2003 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award. He lives in New York and works for the Wildlife Conservation Society.