Don Kurtz was born in Urbana and raised in the farm country of Illinois and Indiana. A winner of the 1992 Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, h...view moreDon Kurtz was born in Urbana and raised in the farm country of Illinois and Indiana. A winner of the 1992 Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has published short fiction in the Iowa Review and Puerto del Sol. He now lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he teaches at New Mexico State University. This is his first book of fiction.view less