A.J. Ellis is a fiction writer and a persuasive writing instructor at Kansas State University, where he studies creative writing. His stories have been published in Half and One magazine, Free Spirit Publishing, AVATAR at SMCM, and the SlackWater Center for Cultural Journalism. With a background in climate fiction, Ellis's genre studies have recently taken a turn into the macabre as he develops his first novel with a focus on the unreliable narrator and shifting perspectives in horror.