K. DAVID WADE is a writer from Washington, PA, interested in rustbelt literature, hip hop, and speculative fiction. He earned his MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for Best Novel. His fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review Online and Kweli Journal; his nonfiction has been published in Brevity. He lives in San Diego, CA and is currently working on an MAT at Fuller Theological Seminary. Find him online @kdavidwade.