I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them (35 page)

–my University of Tennessee family, especially Allen Wier, Marilyn Kallet, and Michael Knight.

–my Air Force Academy family, especially Jim Meredith, George Luker, Richard Lemp, Ann Reagan, Thomas Bowie, Gary Mills, Wilson Brissett, Bill Newmiller, Max Despain, James Bishop, Kathy Binns, and Jeanette Millar.

–my Wolfpack family.

–Tom and Jackie Quinn.

–Ben Oneto, Tim Campbell, Matt Bateman, Nicholle Tognotti, Glenda Grant, Dave Willhardt, and Kurt Martinson.

–Greg Killingsworth, Paul Hardig, Phil Bryant, and Dave Taylor.

–the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.

–the community of writers, artists, journals, and magazines that has supported my work.

Most importantly, with all my heart,

–my wife, Sarah, and children, Ella, Owen, and Abby.

J
ESSE
G
OOLSBY
's fiction and essays have appeared in
Narrative
, the
Kenyon Review
,
Epoch
, the
Literary Review
,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, the
Greensboro Review
, and many other publications. He is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction, and a Holland & Knight Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambridge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. A U.S. Air Force officer, Goolsby was raised in Chester, California, and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida.