Calvin Mills was raised behind the Redwood Curtain, in Eureka, California. He now lives and writes in Port Angeles, Washington. His nonfiction essays are forthcoming in Quills and Pixels, Bricolage, and the Southern Indiana Review. His short stories have appeared in The Caribbean Writer and The Timber Creek Review and are forthcoming in Short Story and Toyon. He was awarded the Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize from The Caribbean Writer in 2005 and the Cooper Honors Award for Fiction from Equinox in 2006.

“I write because text is not as static as it seems. The language we cement on the page becomes lively and surprisingly flexible in the mind of the reader. In writing, we sketch out microcosmic worlds. In reading, we enter these worlds like dreams—and our subconscious mind takes over, filling in the details, fleshing out the outline, and making our own meaning. If that is not reason enough to keep writing, I don’t know what is.”

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