Michael Craft is the author of nineteen novels, four of which were honored as finalists for Lambda Literary Awards. His 2019 mystery, ChoirMaster, was a Gold Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, and the first installment of his Dante & Jazz series, Desert Getaway, was a 2023 MWA Edgars nominee for the Lilian Jackson Braun Award. In addition, he is the author of two produced plays, and his prizewinning short fiction has appeared in British as well as American literary journals. Craft grew up in Illinois and spent his middle years in Wisconsin, the setting for many of his books. He now lives in Rancho Mirage, California, near Palm Springs, which provided the setting for his Dante & Jazz mystery series. In 2017, Michael Craft's professional papers were acquired by the Special Collections Department of the Rivera Library at the University of California, Riverside. Visit his website at www.michaelcraft.com.
