Chad Simpson

aka @sadchimpson

Creative writing professor. A Taurus and a scholar.

You might think to yourself, who's that sassy, rosy-lipped townie in the Gizmo? That's no townie, it's Chad! (Though he is from Monmouth.)

Velvet blazers. Cigarettes. Bald-ass head. Hipster glasses. Raspy half-wisper: I was like, Chad...

He and his wife have a cooking blog which prominently features a plastic baby that may or may not come to life as they sleep.

Was almost kidnapped as an eighties child.

Had a string of odd jobs: packing meat (but not like that), security guard, juvy parole officer, etc etc.

Winner of Iowa's 2012 John Simmons Short Fiction Award.

No longer bald.

Author of "Woodwinds", a fan-fiction piece centered around Pac-Man and Elvis Presley. You can read it here: https://newfound.org/archives/volume-6/issue-1/flash-fiction-chad-simpson/

Due to the presence of two other Chad child athletes, chose to sometimes go by “Steve” during his childhood athlete years, in order to avoid name-confusion.