Stephen Willis is a writer and musician from Arizona. He has written for a various companies and industries as a freelance copywriter and web developer. While his main focus has been writing for company websites, he has recently been working to promote his creative work as a fiction writer and as a folk musician for his solo project
My Eclectic Self. In addition to being a co-founding editor of Uprising Review, he is also the editor of the poker news site,
Growing Poker. In his spare time, Stephen enjoys hiking and language learning. He has an unhealthy relationship with his cat who is also his primary language exchange partner; he currently speaks with her in Dutch and Esperanto.