Lloyd Mullins is an U.S. Air Force retiree and holds an MFA in Creative Writing - Fiction from Miami University. He is also a life-long student of American history, particularly the Old West. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in America's Emerging Literary Fiction Writers: Illinois, Indiana, & Iowa, Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Indiana's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction, and Tributaries: The Indiana University East Journal of Fine Arts. He lives on his family farm in Indiana, with his lovely and talented wife Jess, their four dogs, and three cats.