In 2011, Marcus Pactor won the Subito Press Prize for Fiction and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His short story collection Vs. Death Noises will be published in October. is work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conte, The Dos Passos Review, Fourteen Hills, Front Range Review, KNOCK, The Minnesota Review, Peeks and Valleys, Quiddity, River Oak Review, and Timber.