A graduate of Emerson’s MFA program, Kurt Baumeister is the author of the forthcoming novel Pax Americana. A satirical thriller, the first in a trilogy, Pax Americana is set in the near future at the nexus of technology, politics, and religion. Currently at work on his second novel, a comic crime fantasy entitled Loki’s Gambit, Kurt has written for The Weeklings, The Good Men Project, and STIR Journal among others.