Michael D. Graves teaches Intensive English and TESOL courses at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. His writing has appeared in Cheap Detective Stories, Thorny Locust, Flint Hills Review, and elsewhere. He is an author of Green Bike, a group novel, along with Kevin Rabas and Tracy Million Simmons. His first Pete Stone novel, To Leave a Shadow, was named a Kansas Notable book in 2016.