Mark Budman was born and raised in the former Soviet Union but now resides in New York State. His fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry have appeared in such literary magazines as Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, Turnrow, Another Chicago, The Bloomsbury Review and elsewhere. He is the publisher of a flash fiction magazine Vestal Review and the recipient of the Broome Country Art Council grant.