Lewis Nordan is the author of three collections of short stories and four works of fiction, including Music of the Swamp, Wolf Whistle, The Sharpshooter Blues, and Lightning Song. His memoir is captured in Boy With a Loaded Gun. Awards include the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and three American Library Association Notable Book citations. Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, he lives now in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he serves as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh.