In 2006, Thomas Lisenbee—small town Kansan, born and bred—celebrated the end of a highly successful forty-one-year career as a New York City freelance musician by selling his trump...view moreIn 2006, Thomas Lisenbee—small town Kansan, born and bred—celebrated the end of a highly successful forty-one-year career as a New York City freelance musician by selling his trumpets and taking up the pen. A performance poet, he is the author of Dogwalking and co-author of Three from Osage Street. Winner of the Richard Bauch Prize for short fiction, shortlisted for the Raymond Carver Prize, acclaimed by Glimmertrain as one of “America’s Best New Authors,” his short fiction selected for The Best of Our Stories, volumes 1 and 3, Pioneer Street is his first novel.view less