Richard Dragan is a journalist whose fiction has appeared in Eclectica Magazine, Quarto, and Snow Monkey. He is a lover of travel and film and a lifelong jazz musician who currently teaches creative writing and journalism at CUNY. He is working on a novel and a family memoir, a story of coal mining, baseball, and jazz. Raised in the Midwest, he received an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. He currently resides in Manhattan with his spouse and two daughters. Invisible Bridges is his first short story collection.