Mike McClelland

Like Sharon Stone and the zipper, Dr. Mike McClelland is originally from Meadville, Pennsylvania. He has lived on five different continents but now resides in Illinois with his husband, two sons, and a menagerie of rescue dogs. He is the author of the short fiction collection Gay Zoo Day and he teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. His creative work has appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Boston Review, Vox, The Baffler, Fairy Tale Review, and a number of literary magazines and anthologies, and he is a graduate of Allegheny College, the London School of Economics, the MFA Program at Georgia College, and the University of Georgia's Creative Writing PhD Program. Find him online at magicmikewrites.com.