Eric Muirhead was born in Dallas, Texas graduated cum laude from Yale, moved to Houston, left medical school, and drove a taxi. Cab Tales is his first novel, the second edition of which is published by Ink Brush Press. Graduating from Rice with a Master's in English literature, he then went to Labuan, East Malaysia for eight years with his wife, building a fifty-three foot gaff-rigged schooner on the beach and sailing it across the Pacific to Hawaii. Teaching at Chadwick School, Palos Verdes, CA, he wrote Rindu, a novel about his experiences in the fabrication world of offshore oil. Returning to Houston, he taught at San Jacinto College for twenty years before dying in a tragic accident in 2012. His third novel, Eden's Abyss, is about a teacher in a private school. The Collected Poems of Eric Muirhead has just won the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Prize Award for 2013-2014. His website is Ericmuirhead.net