B.J. Hollars is an instructor at the University of Alabama where he received his MFA in 2010. He has served as nonfiction editor and assistant fiction editor for Black Warrior Review. He is also the editor of "You Must Be This Tall To Ride" from Writer's Digest Books and the web magazine www.YouMustBeThisTallToRide.net. He also edits for Versal.

He has work published or forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, Fugue, Faultline, The Southeast Review, DIAGRAM, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Hobart, among others.