In the stories of Big Bad, the mundane meets the mysterious, and the comedic collides with the catastrophic.

Whitney Collins's fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, The Southeast Review, Grist, The Pinch, Moon City Review, Quarter After Eight, The Laurel Review, Lumina, and Raleigh Review, among others. She is the recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a semifinalist for American Short Fiction's 2019 The Short(er) Fiction Prize, and her flash horror is forthcoming in Catapult's Tiny Nightmares anthology. Big Bad was the 2019 winner of Sarabande Books's Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Collins lives in Kentucky with her husband and two sons.