Colin Winnette is from Denton, Texas. He is the author of Revelation (Mutable Sounds), Animal Collection (Spork), Fondly (Atticus Books), Coyote (Les Figues), and Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio, No Exit Press). His work has been translated into Italian and French. Coyote won Les Figues Press’s NOS Book Contest, and was on the Small Press Distribution bestseller list for four months. Haints Stay was listed as a 2015 "Best Book of the Year" by Flavorwire, Litreactor, Largehearted Boy, and Slate. Coyote was listed as a 2015 “Best Book of the Year” by Flavorwire and the Washington Independent Review of Books. Haints Stay was listed as a 2015 "Best Book of the Year" by Flavorwire, Litreactor, Largehearted Boy, and Slate and featured in the Vice magazine's '2015 Was the Year the Literary Versus Genre War Ended' best book list. Colin was a runner-up for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Award, and a finalist for Gulf Coast Magazine’s Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, as well as the 1913 Press First Book Award. He was the winner of the Sonora Review’s 2012 Short Short Fiction Contest and Heavy Feather Review’s Featured Chapbook Contest in 2014. His writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He lives in San Francisco.