Charles Holdefer is the Brussels-based author of six novels, most recently Don’t Look at Me (2022). His collections of short fiction include Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic (2024). His novel The Contractor (2012) was an American Booksellers Association “Book Sense Pick” and was translated into several languages. His short fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the New England Review, North American Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is also the fiction editor for The Exacting Clam magazine. Visit Charles at www.charlesholdefer.com.