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 latest 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 September 2023; and a new collection of stories, THE BLISS OF YOUR ATTENTION, was published on January 21, 2025, once again by JHUP.