Anthony Neil Smith was born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and then moved to Michigan to teach a few years before landing at a small state university in southwestern Minnesota, where he’s been for the past eight years. He is married and has three criminally mischievous pets. He had to learn to cook all of the great Southern and Cajun food he had growing up so he could keep eating it way up north. He likes cheap red wine and tacos. He likes hair metal, vintage guitars, and the color orange. He received his PhD from Southern Mississippi and then started writing crime novels. Buy them.