Andrew Allegretti is the winner of numerous Illinois Arts Council Fellowships and Literary Awards, and teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs of the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago. His fiction has been published in many magazines, including TriQuarterly, Private Arts, Stand, and F. "Heat Lightning," the prologue to his novel, Winter House, was a semifinalist for the James Fellowship for Novels in Progress, sponsored by the Heekin Foundation. Recently, an excerpt from his novel-in-progress, A Fool's Game, appeared in f4. Allegretti has chaired the John Schultz & Betty Shiflett Story Workshop Scholarship Fund gala and is a board member of the Story Workshop Institute.