Greg Oldfield is a physical education teacher, writer, and real estate agent from the Philadelphia area where he lives with his daughter. He writes about soccer on his new website Backyard Pitches after many years writing for Philadelphia Soccer Now and the Brotherly Game. His literary stories have appeared in Barrelhouse, Carve, the Under Review, and Maudlin House, among others, While a Kinesiology undergrad at Penn State University, Greg played on the nationally-ranked soccer team, earning All-Big Ten and Academic All-Big Ten honors. He earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Arcadia University and writes to fill his soccer-playing void. In 2024, Greg joined Keller Williams Real Estate in Newtown, PA, servicing the Greater Philadelphia area.