Much of the following is true: Sean Bernard is: a cheerful sort; a member of a secret organization hatched in a southwestern city in the fall of 1993; author of the collection Desert sonorous (March 2015), winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, as well as the novel Studies in the Hereafter (August 2015), a thickly veiled novel set in heaven; a winner with a can-do attitude but an inconsistent backhand; reliant on various supplements for reasons that cannot be disclosed; the editor of Prism Review; the best durned creative writing teacher a student could ask for; wanted.