Tom Bailey, the author of Etruscan’s Crow Man (2003), was born in Greenwood, Mississippi.  Growing up he lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Virginia, and West Virginia.  He is the author of A Short Story Writer’s Companion (Oxford University Press, 2000) and the editor of On Writing Short Stories (Oxford University Press, 1999).  Widely published in literary journals and magazines, including DoubleTake, his fiction has been reprinted in such anthologies as The Pushcart Prizes and New Stories from the South and cited in The Best American Short Stories.  He is the recipient of a Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. 

Tom Bailey teaches at the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife, Sarah, and their three children, Samuel, Isabel, and William.