David Borofka is the author of HINTS OF HIS MORTALITY (winner of the 1996 Iowa Short Fiction Award) and a novel, THE ISLAND (MacMurray & Beck). His second collection of stories, A LONGING FOR IMPOSSIBLE THINGS, was released in 2022, as part of the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series; his novel, THE END OF GOOD INTENTIONS, was published by Fomite Press in 2023; and a new collection of stories, THE BLISS OF YOUR ATTENTION, arrived in January 2025, once again by JHUP.