Michael C. Keith is the author or coauthor of more than two dozen groundbreaking books on electronic media. Beyond that, he is the author of an acclaimed memoir The Next Better Place, a young adult novel Life is Falling Sideways, and 24 story collections.   His latest include Bodies in Recline and Euphony. He was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award, multiple times for the Pushcart Prize, a PEN/O.Henry Award, and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the International Book Award in the "Fiction Visionary" category.   His work has been translated into Greek, Russian, Albanian, Spanish, Indonesian, German, and Chinese. He is an emeritus professor at Boston College.