PRESTON L. ALLEN is the author of eight works of fiction, including Every Boy Should Have a Man (Akashic Books, Ltd.), Jesus Boy (Akashic Books, Ltd.), All or Nothing (Akashic Books, Ltd.), and the award-winning collection Churchboys and Other Sinners (Blair). His stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and have been anthologized in Brown Sugar, Miami Noir, y Las Vegas Noir. The creator and host of Accents: A Poetry Jam, Allen is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Miami Dade College. He was born in Honduras and lives in South Florida. I Disappeared Them: A Novel (Akashic Books, Ltd.) is his latest book.