Grant Tracey is the author of nearly fifty short stories and four collections of fiction, including Final Stanzas, published by Twelve Winters Press in 2015. He teaches courses in creative writing and film at the University of Northern Iowa, and he has been the fiction editor of the North American Review for over fifteen years. He was the recipient of an Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence in 2013. In addition to his writing, editing and teaching, Grant has acted in more than twenty community theater productions. Cheap Amusements is his first novel.