Michael Kardos (michaelkardos.com) of Mississippi State University is a fiction author and instructor. He is the author of the story collection
One Last Good Time (Press 53, 2011) and the forthcoming novel
The Three-Day Affair (Grove/Atlantic 2012). His short stories have appeared in
The Southern Review,
Crazyhorse,
Prairie Schooner, and many other magazines and anthologies. His essays about fiction have appeared in
The Writer's Chronicle and
Writer's Digest. Kardos received his B.A. from Princeton University, his M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State and edits the literary journal
Jabberwock Review. Kardos is author of the upcoming Bedford text,
The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer's Guide and a contributor to Bedford's
LitBits, where he blogs about
teaching creative writing.