AN Block teaches at Boston University, is Contributing Editor at the Improper Bostonian and a Master of Wine. In addition to Amarillo Bay, recent stories have appeared in Buffalo Almanack (recipient of its Inkslinger Award for Creative Excellence), Umbrella Factory Magazine (a Pushcart Prize nominee), Lowestoft Chronicle (a Pushcart Prize nominee), Solstice, The Maine Review, Junto Magazine, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Dime Show Review, Constellations, Contrary, The Writing Disorder, Litbreak, The Broadkill Review, Projected Letters, KYSO Flash, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Torrid Literature, The Hungry Chimera, Menda City Review, Literally Stories, Drunk Monkeys, New Pop Lit, Per Contra, The Citron, DenimSkin, Burningwood Literary Journal, Crack The Spine, The Bicycle Review, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Flash Frontier, Blue Bonnet Review, Nite Writers International Literary Journal, Falling Star, Down In The Dirt, The Binnacle, and several others.