Michael Nye has worked at River Styx as assistant editor since May 2004, and became managing editor in January 2005. He earned his BA in English from The Ohio State University and a MFA in Fiction at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His stories have been finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, nominated for the AWP Intros Award, Best New American Voices, and the Missouri-St. Louis Graduate Prize in Fiction. His stories have recently appeared in Sou'wester, Thin Air, and Timber Creek Review.