Nels Hanson grew up on a small farm south of Fresno in California's San Joaquin Valley. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Montana, and his fiction received the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award and an honorable mention in its Joseph Henry Jackson competition. His stories have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Antioch Review, Texas Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review, Long Story, South Dakota Review, and Zahir. He has worked as a teacher and a farmer and now lives in San Luis Obispo, California, where he and his wife, Vicki, have an editing service.
