Gary Fincke’s latest book is The Darkness Call, a collection of personal essays that won the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose and was published by Pleiades Press in February. His newest collection of poems The Infinity Room has just won Michigan State’s Wheelbarrow Press Poetry Prize and will appear late this year. West Virginia University published The Out-of-Sorts: New and Selected Stories in 2017, and Stephen F. Austin published Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems in 2016. Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction and the Ohio State University/The Journal Poetry Prize for earlier books, he has just retired as the Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. The discussion with Gary can be found here.