Ian Randall Wilson's short stories and poetry have appeared in many journals including the North American Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, the Mid-American Review, and Poetry East. He is the winner of the 1994 Cera Foundation Poetry Award. Wilson is on the faculty at the UCLA Extension where he teaches creative writing classes in the short story, and is a contributing editor to the poetry annual 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry. He is also an executive at Columbia TriStar Marketing Group and lives in Los Angeles, California. His first collection, Hunger and Other Stories, was recently published by Hollyridge Press.