Michael Shilling is the author of Rock Bottom, which Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company published in 2009. This summer, the book will be adapted as musical by the Landless Theater Company in Washington, DC. His short stories have appeared in The Sun, Fugue, and Other Voices. Back in Seattle after several wild years in the midwest, he teaches at Cornish College of the Arts, and is working on a novel that involves people running out of time while running after each other. He also plays the drums in a soul band.