Michael Croley, born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Corbin, Kentucky, is the author of the story collection Any Other Place, winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Weatherford Award. He is also the coeditor of Midland: Reports from Flyover Country. A graduate of the creative writing programs at Florida State University and the University of Memphis, Croley teaches at Denison University and is on the visiting faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.