Neil Tarpey
Neil’s stories and poems have appeared in print and online, including “Handgun Wedding,” which The North Coast Journal voted its best flash fiction in 2009. Fithian Press published his collection of 52 stories, Flashes of Lightning, in 2016. Neil earned M.A. degrees in Teaching Writing and in Counseling Psychology from Humboldt State University, and a B.A. in English from St. Bonaventure University. He worked a combined 41 years as a substance abuse counselor, college instructor and sports writer. Neil hails from New York City, and lives with his wife and their three-legged pit bull on Northern California’s redwood coast.