Rick Skwiot's new urban mystery, "Fail," was released by Blank Slate Press in fall 2014. Skwiot is the author of three previous novels--the Hemingway First Novel Award winner "Death in Mexico," the Willa Cather Fiction Prize finalist "Sleeping With Pancho Villa," and "Key West Story"--and two memoirs: the critically acclaimed childhood memoir "Christmas at Long Lake," and "San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing."He's taught creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis and served as the 2004 Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is co-founder and director of the Key West Writers Lab (www.KeyWestWritersLab.org), which mentors serious novelists and memoirists. A veteran journalist, he also works as a feature writer. He lives in Key West, Florida, and blogs at www.RickSkwiot.com.