Vincent Czyz is the author of The Secret Adventures of Order, an essay collection, The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi, a novella, Adrift in a Vanishing City, a fiction collection that received the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for Best in Small Press, and The Christos Mosaic, a novel. He is the recipient of two fiction fellowships from the NJ Council on the Arts and the W. Faulkner-W. Wisdom Prize for Short Fiction. The 2011 Truman Capote Fellow at Rutgers University, his stories have appeared in Shenandoah, AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Tin House, Tampa Review, Georgetown Review, Copper Nickel, December, Southern Indiana Review, and Skidrow Penthouse, among other publications. He spent a total of nearly a decade in Istanbul, Turkey before settling in Jersey City, NJ, USA.