Adrian Simmons is a Norman, Oklahoma, based reader and writer.  His essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Internet Review of Science Fiction, and Coyote Wild.  His short fiction has popped up in Allegory Ezine, Revolution SF, and Coyote Wild.    An avid backpacker, he has hiked over 700 miles.  He is famous on the internet (in a good way).  He is looking forward to living in a center-left nation.  He is half the editorial team of heroicfantasyquarterly.com.