Jackson Culpepper grew up in Georgia, whose red hills and swamps shaped these stories. Since then, he has lived in Southern Appalachia, the mountain west, and the desert southwest. Songs on the Water was his fiction thesis at the University of South Carolina's MFA program. His work has appeared in Armchair/Shotgun, Cartridge Lit, and most recently in Identity Theory. He lives and teaches at several community colleges in the Denver, Colorado area.