Michael Kardos is the pushcart-prize winning author of BLUFF, BEFORE HER FINDS HER, and THE THREE-DAY AFFAIR, which Esquire named one of the best books of 2012. His short story collection, ONE LAST GOOD TIME, won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he co-directed the creative writing program at Mississippi State University for over a dozen years before moving with his family to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.