Dr. Jesse Goolsby is the author of the collection Acceleration Hours (University of Nevada Press) and the novel I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His fiction and essays have appeared widely, including The Literary Review, Epoch, TriQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, Salon, Florida Review, and Pleiades. He is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, the John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction, and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. 

A retired US Air Force Colonel, Goolsby earned an English degree from the United States Air Force Academy, a Master's degree in English from the University of Tennessee, and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University.