Jean-Luc Bouchard is a contributor to The Onion and a writer based in North Carolina whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Catapult, Vox, Wigleaf, Epiphany, PANK, and other publications. He is the winner of Split Lip Magazine’s 2019 flash fiction contest and Epiphany Magazine’s 2016 “Writers Under 30” contest, was included on Wigleaf’s 2018 short fiction longlist, and was a finalist for the 2021 and 2022 James Hurst Prizes for Fiction. His work can be found at jeanlucbouchard.com.
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