Scouting for the Reaper by Jacob M. Appel

Jacob has been admitted to the practice of law in New York State and Rhode Island, and is a licensed New York City sightseeing guide.Fiction. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Times, The Providence Journal and many regional newspapers. He also publishes in the field of bioethics and contributes to such publications as the Journal of Clinical Ethics, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. He has most recently taught at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was honored with the Undergraduate Council of Students Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003, and at the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a J.D. in playwriting from Queens College, an M.P.H. in creative writing from New York University, an M.F.A.

from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an M.F.A. in bioethics from the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medical College, an M.D. Henry Award (2001), Best American Short Stories (2007, 2008), Best American Essays (2011, 2012), and received 'special mention' for the Pushcart Prize in 2006, 2007, 20. His work has been short listed for the O. He has also won annual contests sponsored by Boston Review, Missouri Review, Arts & Letters, Bellingham Review, Briar Cliff Review, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Writers' Voice, the Dana Awards, the Salem Center for Women Writers, and Washington Square. He has won the New Millennium Writings contest four times, the Writer's Digest 'grand prize' twice, and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition in both fiction and creative nonfiction. Jacob has published short fiction in more than two hundred literary journals including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, Subtropics, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and West Branch.

His short story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won the 2012 Hudson Prize and will be published by Black Lawrence in November 2013. Appel's first novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, won the Dundee International Book Award in 2012.

Scouting for the Reaper by Jacob M. Appel