Mark Spitzer is a novelist, poet, essayist, big-game fisherman and assistant professor of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, where he is currently researching Arkansas monsters. Spitzer is the Managing Editor of Exquisite Corpse Annual and has been featured on the Animal Planet series River Monsters as an expert on alligator gar. His latest book, Season of the Gar, was just published by the University of Arkansas Press.