Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and Ph.D. candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is studying English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A contributor to the Books & Arts section of The Weekly Standard, he has published in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Tablet, and Harvard Divinity School Bulletin. His short stories have appeared in The Cortland Review, aaduna, Bewildering Stories (“The End of Days,” winner of the 2015 Spitzer Prize and Mariner Award), Calliope (forthcoming, Oct. 2017), Aurora Wolf, The Sea Letter, cc&d magazine, Founder’s Favourites (forthcoming, Nov. 2017), Short-Story.me, The Acentos Review, and here in Litro Magazine.