Roger Hart, a former science teacher and marathon runner, has an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State-Mankato and is the author of two short story collections, Erratics (Texas Review Press) and Mysteries of the Universe (Kallisto Gaia Press). His stories and essays have been published in more than thirty journals and magazines and have been included in several anthologies. His stories have won the Ohio Writer Fiction Contest, the Third Coast Fiction Contest, the Marguerite McGlinn Fiction Contest, the Dogwood Prize, and the On the Premises Fiction Prize. He lives in Montana where he writes under the supervision of his wife and two big dogs. He is fiction editor of the Bear Paw Arts Journal. Roger is the winner of the 2026 Thomas E. Kennedy Novel Award for his novel Feather & Sel.