Adam Byko is an MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida. His fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming with Catapult, The Pinch, F(r)iction, The Notre Dame Review, and The Baltimore Review among other publications. He has not yet seen an alligator in the wild.

Anthony Garcia graduated from UCF with a BA in Cinema Studies and a BA in English Literature. He is currently in the English MA program.

Michael Parrish is a graduate student in the Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies English MA program, and he is currently working on his master’s thesis. His thesis runs parallel to his article presented here, and his research interests include religious and medieval texts, including biblical and Judaic literature and Arthurian literature.