Corey Mesler ("Scuff Maladicta"), a Pushcart Prize-nominated author, has been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage, and The Memphis Flyer), fiction editor, university press sales rep, grant committee judge, father and son. With his wife he owns Burke's Book Store, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.

Corey's writing has appeared in countless publications, anthologies, and chapbooks. His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published by Livingston Press in 2002, with raves from Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Suzanne Kingsbury, Frederick Barthelme and John Grisham. His new novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is also from Livingston Press.

http://www.coreymesler.com