Dale Bridges is a fiction writer and freelance journalist living in Austin, Texas. His work has been featured in more than thirty publications, including The Rumpus, The Masters Review , and Barrelhouse Magazine . He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his feature writing, narrative nonfiction, and cultural criticism. His short stories and essays have been anthologized, and his writing was selected for inclusion in Sundress Publications' Best of the Net 2012.