Lex Williford has taught at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; the University of Missouri, St. Louis; and the University of Alabama. His book, Macauley's Thumb (University of Iowa Press, 1994), won the Iowa Short Fiction Award; his chapbook, Superman on the Roof (Rose Metal Press, 2016), won the Rose Metal Flash Fiction Chapbook Award. His work appears in numerous national journals. He is coeditor, with Michael Martone, of the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction, and he teaches in the bilingual MFA program at The University of Texas at El Paso.