Kirby GannKirby Gann is the author of the novel Ghosting, which was included in the Best of Year lists from Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, and flavorpill.com, and was a finalist for the Kentucky Book of the Year; an earlier novel, Our Napoleon in Rags, wa also a finalist for the Kentucky Book of the Year. He is the series editor of Bookmarked on behalf of Ig Publishing, and contributed the first title in that series: Bookmarked: John Knowles' A Separate Peace. He is a freelance editor and writing mentor and is on the faculty in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University. Gann and his wife Stephanie, a horticulturist, live with an ever-changing pack of dogs outside of Louisville, Kentucky. The Barbarian Parade was his first novel, originally published in 2004. Read More Read Less