Justin St. Germain grew up in Tombstone, Arizona. His memoir, Son of a Gun, is forthcoming from Random House, and his writing has appeared in the Best of the West anthology, ZYZZYVA, Western American Literature, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Sewanee Writers Conference, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona, the University of San Francisco, and Stanford. He is currently at work on a novel about a giant rosebush and a priest.
