Thomas P. Balázs is a fiction writer, essayist, and professor of English. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Horror Library, The North American Review, and The Southern Humanities Review. The author of Omicron Ceti III, he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Look for his biweekly musings, Perplexed Jew, on Substack.