JOHN DUFRESNE is the author of six novels: Louisiana Power & Light: A Novel and Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel (both New York Times Notable Books of the Year); Deep in the Shade of Paradise: A Novel; Requiem, Mass.: A Novel; No Regrets, Coyote: A Novel; and I Don’t Like Where This Is Going: A Wylie Coyote Novel. He also wrote two short story collections: The Way That Water Enters Stone: Stories and Johnny Too Bad: Stories, as well as three chapbooks: Lethe, Cupid, Time and Love; Well Enough Alone: Two Stories and Thirteen Poems; and I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window. He’s also authored two books on writing and creativity: The Lie That Tells a Truth: a Guide to Writing Fiction and Is Life Like This?: a Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months. He wrote a full-length play, Trailerville, which was produced at the Blue Heron Theatre in New York in 2005, and the screenplay for the award-winning short film The Freezer Jesus. He also co-wrote the screenplay for To Live and Die in Dixie with Don Papy. He was a 2012-2013 Guggenheim fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.