Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour, a finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award, and the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, a project grant from Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. He teaches in the low-residency MFA programs at Eastern Oregon University and West Virginia Wesleyan College.