Calvin Mills teaches English at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington.
His stories and creative nonfiction essays have appeared in Short Story, Weird
Tales, The Caribbean Writer, Tales from the South Vol. 1, Timber Creek Review, Southern Indiana Review, and other journals and magazines.

In answer to our question of why he writes, Calvin responded:

“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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