David Huddle’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the American Scholar, Esquire, the New Yorker, Harper’s, Poetry, and The Georgia Review, among others. Huddle’s most recent poetry collection, Dream Sender, was published by LSU Press in Fall 2015, and his new novel, Hazel, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2018. “Little Double-Barrel” is a chapter in that novel. Huddle teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English and in the Rainier Writing Workshop.