Schwartz settles across the southwest to shed light on souls who, despite all odds, are still looking for meaning.

STEVEN SCHWARTZ grew up outside Chester, Pennsylvania, and has lived in Colorado for the past 30 years. He's the author of the novels Therapy and A Good Doctor's Son and three collections of short stories, including most recently Little Raw Souls, winner of the 2014 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction. His writing has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Cohen Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two O. Henry Prize Story Awards, and the Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction. Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University, he is fiction editor for Colorado Review. His new book, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories, will be published in September 2016. http://www.stevenschwartzbooks.com/