Mark Spitzer is the author of fourteen books and has published hundreds of essays, stories, poems and literary translations. Spitzer has degrees in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, the University of Colorado, and Louisiana State University, and was Writer in Residence at the infamous Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company from 1993 to 1996. He can be found on reruns of the "Alligator Gar" episode of the Animal Planet series River Monsters or in the annals of American literary history as an editor of the legendary EXQUISITE CORPSE (both the online version and the print annual). He is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas, where he is the Editor- in-Chief of Unnatural State .