Bill Pieper‘s most recent book is a collection titled Forgive Me, Father, published by Cold River Press in December, 2014. Two of the dozen stories included were workshopped at Squaw Valley, two others received Pushcart Prize nominations in 2012, and a third won a national award from Scratch Writer Magazine in 2011. His work has also appeared in The Farallon Review, Red Fez, Convergence, Primal Urge, Fiction 365 and The Blue Lake Review. Prior to launching into short fiction, Bill had two small press novels published, Belonging from Comstock Bonanza Press in 2006 and What You Wish For from Pacific Slope Press in 2011. He lives and writes in Sacramento and Nevada City, California, and attended the Community of Writers in 2010. www.authorsden.com/billpieper