No stranger to hard work, Indiana author Tommy Dean toiled in the corn fields of his youth, dreaming of basketball or baseball stardom. He's drawn to ...

Tennessee author Amy Cipolla Barnes grew up in the Great Plains, where her grandparents owned and operated a farm. In her fiction and other writing, o...

Michigan author Keith Hood can remember with clarity the day the riots of 1967 came right up to the front door of his childhood Detroit home. In his f...

Massachusetts author Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing psychiatrist in the Boston area who joins a long tradition of doctors who have written poetry a...

Pennsylvania author Doug Brown's debut story collection My Bohemian Baptism and Then Some (Serif Press) is a testament to his determination to ne...

COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES is the brainchild of authors Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey, whose combined years working in the publishing industry has give...

New Jersey author Alyson Mosquera Dutemple began her professional career working in film production. The pressures of being on-set soon had her turnin...

South Carolina author Dustin M. Hoffman spent ten years as a house painter - which might have something to do with his fondness for characters from th...

New Jersey author Bill Merklee was playing in rock bands when he began working for a newspaper that had a tuition reimbursement program. It was his re...

Philadelphia author Matthew Goldberg's fiction, as described on his website, "reimagines the mundane through the lens of the absurd." His speculative ...

Award-winning UK author Alice Jolly had 5 novels to her credit prior to publishing her first story collection - but she'd been writing stories the who...

Nishanth Injam was raised in Telangana, India, and now makes his home in the US, in the Chicago area. His debut story collection, The Best Possible Ex...