Bill Kauffman is the author of ten previous books, including Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette, which won the 2003 national Sense of Place award from Writers & Books, and Look Homeward, America, which the American Library Association named one of the best books of 2006. He also wrote the screenplay for the feature film Copperhead (2013). Kauffman and his family live in his native Genesee County, New York.
