Author Michael Bourne has been a contributor to the New York Times, The Economist, Tin House, and Literary Hub, among other publications and had his stories published widely in literary magazines. His debut novel Blithedale Canyon received rave reviews in Publishers Weekly, Zyzzyva, and Rain Taxi, which called it, ?A clever blend of literary fiction with elements of crime and noir ... [whose] cinematic quality comes from characters that demand a performance.? For this novel, Bourne draws on his experience as a reporter at the Aspen Daily News, the pages of which were filled with a witch's brew of charismatic wanderers, frontiersmen and women, and charlatans who populate mountain ski towns. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife and son.