Russell Helms has had stories published in literary magazines such as Drunken Boat (forthcoming), Litro (audio), Versal, Bewildering Stories, Assembly Journal, The Moth, Soliloquies Anthology, antiTHESIS, Qarrtsiluni, and in the anthology A La Carte (2010, Main Street Rag). He was born in Georgia, is from Alabama, lives in Kentucky, and has traveled widely including volunteering in Ethiopia and Haiti. He is the coordinator of Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University.