Alex Bledsoe grew up in west Tennessee, an hour north of Graceland. He's been a reporter, editor, photographer, and door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman. He is author of the popular Eddie LaCrosse series, the Tufa novels, the Memphis Vampire series, Dandelion, and more than fifty short stories on topics as diverse as big-game hunters, mermaids, modern witches, Victorian gentlemen, and country musicians. He currently lives in Wisconsin with his family.