Lex Williford, a University of Arkansas MFA, has taught in the writing programs at Southern Illinois University, the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and the University of Alabama. His book, Macauley’s Thumb, was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals. Coeditor of the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction and founding director of the online MFA at the University of Texas at El Paso, he teaches both online and on-campus in UTEP’s bilingual creative writing program.
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.