David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below and associate professor of English at Creighton University. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his fiction has appeared in many publications, including in The Yale Review, Ecotone, Cimarron Review, Fiction, and Folio.

Based on a true event, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives and interactions of six Las Vegans in the wake of an industrial disaster. Grief and regret, disloyalty and atonement, infatuation and love--all are on display as the characters struggle to recover and adjust when their lives are forever changed.