Sam Slaughter is the author of the cocktail book Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum: and Other Cocktails for 90s Kids in addition to two collections of short fiction. He received his BA from Elon University and his MA from Stetson University. His work has been published in a variety of places, from The Bitter Southerner and Maxim to literary outlets such as McSweeney's Online Tendency and Midwestern Gothic.