Chad Foret is a writer and editor from southeast Louisiana, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He is the author of Scenes from a Rain Country (Lavender Ink, 2022) and Watching Machine (Osmanthus, 2026). Recent fiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in If Memory Serves, a food writing anthology from Good, Printed Things; Fairy Tale Review; Action, Spectacle; Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine; and other journals and anthologies. More info can be found at chadforet.com.