Joel Henry Little is a writer, musician, and first-year fiction M.F.A. candidate at Syracuse University. He was born and raised in New York City and received a B.A. in English from Hunter College, where he graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors in 2023 and was the first-place winner of the Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing. His short stories, sometimes described as weird silly tragedies – or weirsallgedies – have previously appeared in Ghost City Review, Maudlin House, and Heavy Feather Review, among others. Joel has also been releasing original music professionally since the age of eighteen, and has played widely in N.Y.C. and Paris, France. Outside these pursuits, he is a devoted father to two cats and has been, at various times: an after-school teacher, a bookseller, a teenage championship bowler, a stage actor, a repertory cinema habitué, and a not particularly accomplished baker with a lot of promise and a lot of heart. Keep up with Joel and his work at joelhenrylittle.com or by following him on Instagram (@joelhenrylittle).