John Dufresne
John Dufresne is the author of the novels Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps the Mind a Little, Deep in the Shade of Paradise, and most recently, Requiem, Mass. He's also written two collections of stories, The Way That Water Enters Stone and Johnny Too Bad, and two guides to writing fiction, The Lie That Tells a Truth and Is Life Like This?. He teaches creative writing at Florida International University in Miami, and he is also the editor of the anthology Blue Christmas. His novel No Regrets, Coyote will be published by Norton in July 2013.