Writing as Michael Wiley, Michael George is the author of eleven novels and two books of literary criticism. Recipient of the Best Novel Shamus Award for A Bad Night's Sleep as well as other prizes and nominations for his long fiction, he also publishes short stories, including "Where There's Love," selected for the Best Mystery Stories of 2022 anthology. His fiction focuses on crime, in Chicago, where he grew up, the Southeast, where he has lived for the past twenty-five years, and, as in Find Your Own Way Home, the spaces in between. Having worked as an itinerant cherry picker, an attendant at an in-patient mental health facility, and a speechwriter, Michael is a professor of creative writing and literature at the University of North Florida.