Gary Fincke’s fourth collection of stories, Sorry I Worried You (University of Georgia Press, 2004), won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Michigan State published Amp’d: A Father’s Backstage Pass, his nonfiction account of his son’s life in two signed rock bands, in 2004. His latest book is a collection of poems, Standing around the Heart (University of Arkansas Press, 2005). He directs the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University.