Michael C. Keith is the author of more than 20 books on electronic media, among them Talking Radio, Voices in the Purple Haze, Radio Cultures, Signals in the Air , and the classic textbook The Radio Station (now Keith's Radio Station ). The recipient of numerous awards in the academic field, he is also the author of dozens of articles and short stories and has served in a variety of editorial positions. In addition, he is the author of PERSPECTIVE DRIFTS LIKE A LOG ON A RIVER; an acclaimed memoir-- The Next Better Place (screenplay co-written with Cetywa Powell); a young adult novel-- Life is Falling Sideways ; and 12 story collections-- Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag's Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks , SLOW TRANSIT, and Now This Message . He has been nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the 2013 International Book Award in the "Fiction Visionary" category.