Madison Jones has published 12 novels including The Innocent, A Cry of Absence, A Buried Land, An Exile, Last Things, To the Winds, and Nashville 1864:The Dying of the Light. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and the Sewanee Review. Honors include the T.S. Eliot Award from the Ingersoll Foundation, the Harper Lee Award, Michael Shaara Award from the United States Civil War Center, and a Lytle Short Story Prize from the Sewanee Review. His latest novel is Herod’s Wife.