Jack Riggs was raised in Lexington, North Carolina where he grew up on Honey Monk barbecue and ACC Basketball.  After a ten-year career in Hollywood where he worked as an Assistant Director and story analyst, he returned to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, studying under the tutelage of Fred Chappell.  His stories have appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, The Crescent Review, The Habersham Review, and Writing, Making It Real.  In 2000, he was selected as an “Emerging New Southern Voice” at the Millennial Gathering of the Writers of the New South at Vanderbilt University.  Jack’s work has been a finalist in the Glimmer Train Fiction Contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  He teaches Creative Writing and Film studies at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta where he lives with his wife Debra and his daughter Madison Elizabeth and various hermit crabs, gerbils, fish and a cat named Bundt.