Ron MacLean is the author of the short story collections, We Might As Well Light Something on Fire and Why the Long Face as well as the novels, Head Long and Blue Winnetka Skies. His fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night Train and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee. When he teaches, he does so at Grub Street, Boston’s independent writing center.

Ron’s latest short story collection, We Might As Well Light Something on Fire rated 5 stars on Goodreads, whose reviewer wrote: “There are stories and then there are Ron MacLean stories—the ones that seem almost impossible to believe, the ones that dig deep into layers of truth, the ones you simply can’t get out of your head. In prose that crackles like high-tension wires in the night, MacLean probes the mysterious center of life where things happen without explanation and where we’re brought together by our hunger for meaning.”