Bennett, R. Sebastian: - R. SEBASTIAN BENNETT was born in New York City and grew up in Southern California. He has degrees from Columbia University; the University of Southern California; and the University of Louisiana, where he was a Doctoral Regents Fellow. The founding editor of the Southern Anthology and the former director of the Creative Writing Program at Muskingum University, Mr. Bennett has also taught fiction writing at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Louisiana. He was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and his writing has appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including Columbia Journal, Fiction International, the Los Angeles Review, New Orleans Review, the Texas Review, the Wisconsin Review, Paris Transcontinental-Sorbonne, Equus, the Bombay Review, and the Galway Review. Mr. Bennett's novel, The Final Yen, was published by Sunbury Press in 2021. His website is rsebastianbennett.com.