Bri­an Platzer has an MFA from the Johns Hop­kins Writ­ing Sem­i­nars and a BA from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty. His writ­ing has appeared often in The New Yorker’s Shouts and Mur­murs and McSweeney’s Inter­net Ten­den­cy, as well as in The New York Times, the New Repub­lic, Salon, and else­where. He lives with his wife and two young sons in Bed-Stuy and teach­es mid­dle school Eng­lish in Manhattan.