A. E. Santi speaks three languages, yet, prefers to swear in a fourth and knows how to say "thank you" in over 10 others. After finishing his BA in English, he hitched a ride to Romania on the Peace Corps train. While serving as a volunteer, he took care of street children, raised money for Outward Bound, taught English in a local school and learned how to make tortillas from scratch.

He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in fiction.   He is the recipient of plenty of accolades in his career so far, including a prestigious international translation grant. His work has been published in the Hartford Courant, The Ithaca Journal, Cubista Magazine and The Plum Ruby Review, to name a few. His short story collection is entitled "The Time We Had" and he is hard at work on a novel.

He is the founder of Our Stories, and the editor of the website. He has masthead credits for over a dozen newspapers, newsletters and other publications. Before he founded Our Stories he served on the boards of Phoebe and So to Speak.