Frederick G. Dillen
is an award-winning author whose short fiction has appeared in literary
quarterlies and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His first
novel, Hero, was named Best First Novel of 1994 by the Dictionary
of Literary Biography. His second novel, Fool, was honored by
Nancy Pearl as a Book Lust Rediscoveries selection in 2012. Dillen and his
wife, Leslie, are parents of two grown daughters and live in New Mexico.