Michael C. White is the author of seven published novels from Harper Collins and St. Martin’s Press, including Beautiful Assassin, which won the 2011 Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, and Soul Catcher, which was a Booksense and Historical Novels Review selection. He has also published a collection of stories, Marked Men. The founding editor of the fiction anthologies American Fiction and Dogwood, he also began and was the director of Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program for ten years