Christian Winn served as Idaho’s 2016-2019 Writer in Residence and is the founder of the Writers Write fiction workshop series, co-founder and Director emeritus of Storyfort, producer of the Campfire Stories reading series, co-founder of Ketchum's To Taste Life Twice workshop series as well as the Couch Surfer artist series. He is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and the Boise State University MFA program. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Joyland, Glimmer Train, ExPat Press and many other fine literary journals far and near.