Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novels Before He Finds Her (2015) and The Three-Day Affair, named by Esquire as a Best Book of 2012, and the story collection One Last Good Time, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction. He received a degree in music from Princeton University and played the drums professionally for a number of years before receiving his MFA from Ohio State 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.
