Gabriel Blackwell is the author of CORRECTION, the short fiction collection Babel, the collection of essays and fictions Critique of Pure Reason, and the novels Madeleine E., The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men, and Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer. Since 2013, he has been editor-in-chief of the magazine The Rupture (formerly The Collagist). His short fiction and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, Tin House and Tin House Online, Post Road, Puerto del Sol, DIAGRAM, The Adroit Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, wigleaf, Always Crashing, and many other places. He lives in Spokane, Washington.