James Terence Schelble holds a PhD in Hungarian Studies from Indiana University Bloomington and lived in Hungary for six years in the late 1990s. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Iron City Magazine, and his essay "The Fiduciary of Force" examines how passive index-fund investing made ordinary retirement savers structural stakeholders in the defense industry. When he's not backpacking, he lives and writes in Tucson, Arizona, and serializes his work at jamesterenceschelble.substack.com