HOTSPUR CLOSSER is a prose and humor editor for Magpie. He walks a fine line between earnestness and resignation in the foothills of Fayetteville, Arkansas.  Born to a pair of English professors, he carved out a career as a public librarian in order to avoid academia and somehow wound up perfunctorily teaching creative writing anyway.  He believes in art, poetry, the Golden Rule, and the Oxford comma.  A misanthropic aesthete at heart, he’s a sensitive man who’s not afraid to throw hands over inconsequential matters.  He has experienced the whole and genuine meanness of life and is convinced the best writing is that which most accurately addresses the human condition.  Sometimes he wishes he were a cowboy.  Most of the time, he wishes he were somewhere else.  His superpowers include boundless trivial knowledge and the uncanny propensity to disappoint.  When he’s not writing, he’s doing his best to retain his sense of humor while kicking against the pricks.  He still hasn’t set the clock on his microwave.