Asher Black is a storyteller, musician & karateka satisfied with the life he always wanted. He spent several years as Editor of MYTHOLOG and Managing Editor of The Green Man Review. Asher is a polymath artist with degrees in History and Educational Psychology who invented a system for studying instrumental music. He has lived in the Midwest, the American South, New York City, and the Pacific Rim. He grew up in the central swath of the United States that forms the Great Plains and is nourished by the many tributaries of the Mississippi River. He writes almost entirely outdoors and deeply about context. He currently lives in the tree-lined neighborhood where Walt Whitman edited the Brooklyn Daily Eagle while writing Leaves of Grass. Asher is a film festival, Broadway theater, and standup comedy enthusiast, art collector and ballroom dancer with a penchant for boating. He endeavors to create vivid, thoughtful, and action-filled stories—of pitiless men and malice, and ordinary people who resist them. His literary writing has appeared in Hummingbird Press, Lilliput Review, The Lamp-Post, Wiglaf Journal, and The Pipe Smokers’ Ephemeris. His non-fiction has appeared in Forbes and other periodicals. By day he works as a corporate storyteller, sales consultant, and digital ecologist.