Paul Luikart is the author of the short story collections Animal Heart (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016) and Brief Instructions (Ghostbird Press, 2017.) His work is included in the 2019 Best Microfiction anthology and his story “Barclay Station” won the Nassau Review's 2019 Writer Award for Fiction. He is an adjunct professor of fiction writing at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. For the past nearly twenty years, he's worked in a variety of capacities at homeless shelters and centers for low-income men, women, and families all over the country. He and his family live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
How I'm going to Get a Master’s Degree Without Going to School,
or Social Justice Defined by a Rube
Rather than go back to school to get a master’s degree in theology or sociology or philosophy, I’ve decided to just hang out with people who are already in school for these things. I’ll ask them super general questions, and, when they respond with never-ending, yet highly educated answers, I’ll nod slightly, look thoughtfully to […]
The “blessing of presence": Ready to listen, ready to fix a drink, ready to say a prayer, ready to pick up the dry cleaning.
Enrique is in isolation in the ICU and they tell me that, if I want to see him, I have to dress up like the doctors attending him. I do want to see him. I mean, that’s why I came to the hospital. So, I step into what looks like an airlock, a little ante […]
What did K think about the violence in his home country? Or of the racism he found in the United States?
I’m writing this on Independence Day, the United States’ birthday, an odd time to be thinking about Burundi, but that’s exactly what I’m doing. Burundi is a tiny nation in the African Great Lakes region, near the middle of the continent. It’s bordered by the enormous Lake Tanganyika on the west, and shares international boundaries […]
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