Michel Sauret was born in Rome, Italy, and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s English Writing department. He is the winner of the 2013 International Book Awards (Amidst Traffic, short story collection) and finalist in the USA Book Awards, Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. He was also nominated and selected as the Army Journalist of the Year award in 2008 for his writing while deployed to Iraq, while serving with a mobile public affairs detachment attached to the 10th Mountain Division. His short stories have been published in literary journals around the world, including the U.S., Great Britain and Australia.