Chad Schuster lives near Seattle with his wife and two children. He earned a journalism degree from the University of Washington and wrote for several newspapers before leaving the news business in 2008. He works for a public involvement firm in Seattle and writes fiction late at night.

Published work

• “A warning to the cycling community” in Glimmer Train (print only), Issue 90, spring/summer 2014
• “Still, it was baseball” in Hobart, April 2015
• “This song is not about a burger” in Queen Mob’s Teahouse, July 2015
• “Last light” in Bartleby Snopes, September 2015 (also appeared in print edition, Issue 14, January 2016 and print edition, Issue 15, January 2017)
• “A taste of fame” in Jersey Devil Press, Issue 71, October 2015
• “The fire of 41” in Literary Orphans, Issue 21, October 2015
• “Some thoughts I noted while standing above a slow-moving river” in Gulf Stream, Issue 14, December 2015
• “Guardians” in Pithead Chapel, April 2016
• “Impermanent Ink” in Hobart, April 2016
• “Leveling” in Per Contra, Issue 40, June 2016
• “Vorkov’s Angel” in Juked Magazine, July 2016
• “The final accident report filed by National Transportation Safety Board Investigator Maxwell Burns” in Novella-T, September 2016
• “The helium’s rise” in WhiskeyPaper, November 2016
• “Another Song in the Desert” in Potomac Review, Issue 60, February 2017
• “Auld Lang Syne” in Barrelhouse, Issue 16, February 2017
• “What was lost in the waning light” in Atticus Review, February 2018
• “We work in the dark” in Glimmer Train (print only), Issue 103, fall 2018
• “Stomping grounds” in Hobart, April 2019
• “The night beyond the boughs” in Necessary Fiction, December 2019
• “All these hidden places” in Zone 3, Fall 2020

Interview

• Potomac Review, April 2018