Michael C. Keith is the author/coauthor of dozens of books and articles in radio and broadcast studies. In addition to his non- fiction titles, Keith has published over 20 creative works, including an acclaimed memoir: The Next Better Place--a young adult novel: Life is Falling Sideways--and several short story collections: among them Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, and Insomnia 11. His fiction has been nominated for numerous awards, among them the Pen/O.Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize, the National Indie Excellence Award, and the International Book Award. He is professor emeritus at Boston College.