Michael Byers's story collection The Coast of Good Intentions won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Long for This World was featured on the History Channel's "Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine." The recipient of a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, Byers lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two children.
"Micheal Byers writes about the passions that govern and shape our lives with breathtaking skill and knowledge of the heart. It's hard to imagine so much knowledge of life coming from so young a writer" --