Michael Croley’s first novel, After the Sun Fell, is forthcoming in 2013. His stories have appeared in Narrative, where he was on their list of Best New Writers in 2011. His other fiction and criticism have been published in Blackbird, The Louisville Review, The Southern Review, Fourth Genre, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His work has won awards from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Key West Literary Seminar, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Croley is a graduate of the creative writing programs at Florida State University and the University of Memphis. He teaches creative writing at Denison University.  

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