Dave Essinger vividly remembers sheltering under school cafeteria tables for "fallout drills" in case of nuclear war, and has been more or less expecting the world to end ever since. His new post-apocalyptic novel This World and the Next is available from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in print and Amazon Kindle in ebook. His first novel, Running Out, was released in 2017, also from Main Street Rag. Other recent writing appears in Gargoyle, Sport Literate, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been General Editor of the AWP Intro Journals Project since 2016. He currently teaches creative writing and edits the literary magazine Slippery Elm at the University of Findlay, in Ohio.