Asher Black is a fiction author, musician, and karateka satisfied with the life he always wanted. He has been Chief Editor of MYTHOLOG: Literature of Mythic Proportions and Managing Editor of The Green Man Review. Asher is a polymath artist with degrees in history and educational psychology. He grew up in the central swath of the United States that forms the Great Plains and is nourished by the many tributaries of the Mississippi River. He currently resides in the tree-lined neighborhood where Walt Whitman edited the Brooklyn Daily Eagle while writing Leaves of Grass. Asher is a film festival, Broadway theater, and standup comedy enthusiast, art collector, and ballroom dancer with a penchant for motorcycling and boating. He writes almost entirely outdoors and endeavors to create vivid, thoughtful stories emphasizing context. His literary writing has appeared in Isele, Hummingbird Press, Lilliput Review, The Lamp-Post, and The Pipe Smokers’ Ephemeris. His nonfiction has appeared in Forbes and other periodicals. He has two manuscripts hunting agents. By day he works as a corporate storyteller and digital ecologist. You can find more of his work at AsherBlack.com.