Brent Spencer is the award-winning author of The Lost Son, a novel; Are We Not Men?, a collection of short fiction; and Rattlesnake Daddy, a memoir. His short fiction has been published in Best American Mystery Stories, The Atlantic, GQ, and elsewhere. His family roots are in southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. He and his wife, the writer Jonis Agee, live in Ponca Hills, a small village close to the Missouri River, just north of Omaha, Nebraska.