John Trefry is an architect in Lawrence, Kansas, United States where he also edits Inside the Castle, a small press for literature in the expanded field. After receiving his architectural education, he practiced architecture with Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects for 13 years and has been teaching architecture at the University of Kansas for 8 years. He has written three novels, Plats, Apparitions of the Living, and Massive (published this year), and a caprice, Thy Decay Thou Seest By Thy Desire.