Theodore Wheeler is the author of the novel KINGS OF BROKEN THINGS and a collection of short fiction, BAD FAITH. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, The Cincinnati Review, Boulevard, Best New American Voices, and New Stories from the Midwest, and has been recognized with an AWP Intro Journals Award, a Marianne Russo Award from Key West Literary Seminar, and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. A graduate of the MFA program at Creighton University, he currently teaches creative writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and covers a civil law and politics beat as a reporter.