Ernest McLeod is a writer and artist living in Middlebury and Montréal. He is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His writing and photography have appeared in The Sun, Men on Men 7: Best New Gay Fiction, Salon, F-Stop, JPG, File, as well as in numerous Vermont publications. He’s served regularly on the admissions board for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is a longtime reader for NER.