Michael Tidemann lives in Iowa. His nonfiction has appeared in Writer’s Journal, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Overdrive, Truckers’ News, Truckers USA, Snowmobile, and the Des Moines Register. His fiction has appeared in Black Hills Monthly Magazine, The Longneck, Struggle Magazine, and thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org. His weekly column, Mike’s Mullings, appears in the Linn County News-Letter and his monthly column, Writers and Writing, appears in 96 newspapers in the Upper Midwest.