Craig Lancaster

Reared in Texas, which accounts for why I say "reared." Lived all over: Wyoming, New Mexico, Alaska (twice), California (twice), Kentucky, Ohio, Montana (now and forever, although I wouldn't take my word for it if I were you).

My debut novel, 600 HOURS OF EDWARD, is in literally dozens of homes and was a 2009 Montana Honor Book and 2010 High Plains Book Award winner. My second novel, THE SUMMER SON, came out in January 2011. My third, EDWARD ADRIFT, emerged in April 2013. I also have a book of short stories, called QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE ART OF DEPARTURE, that won an Independent Publishers Book Awards gold medal. In recent years, I've added the novels THE FALLOW SEASON OF HUGO HUNTER and THIS IS WHAT I WANT. Idle hands and all that.

I wrote a poem that was published, but that doesn't make me a poet. (Believe me.)

Turn-ons: Writing, travel, random complaints about pop culture, movies on the laptop as I wait for sleep.

Turn-offs: Loud people (except me), ideologues, dogma, and olives.