Andrew Farkas is a writer who was born in Akron, Ohio. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA where he helps run a letters racket on the Near West Side and is the Fiction Editor of Packing Town Review. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and earned a master’s degree in English as part of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee. Farkas is getting a doctorate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently working on a novel called Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? set in the 21st century and the main character is being tracked by the Gestapo.