Paul Kilgore has practiced law since his graduation from the University of Minnesota Law School. He dedicates the first hour of every day to writing. Before breakfast, before the morning paper, before the radio, before beginning his work day at the office, Paul Kilgore writes. His resulting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous publications including Prairie Schooner, Beloit Fiction Journal, and Blue Earth Review. He has been a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and his work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Kilgore is a past winner of Minnesota Monthly’s Tamarack Award for Short Fiction. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Duluth, Minnesota.