Ty Phelps is a writer, teacher, and musician. He won The Gravity of the Thing’s 2016 Six Word Story Contest, was a finalist for Gigantic Sequins flash fiction contest, and has published work in Writespace and the 1001 Journal. Ty enjoys loud music, pine trees, decaf coffee, and playing drums of all sorts. He's back in Madison, his hometown, after a decade in Portland, Oregon.