Yale University graduate Michael Scofield received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College in 2002. He is also the author of three books of poems, "Silicon Valley Escapee," "Whirling Backward into the World," and "Circus Americana and Other Poems;" the novels "Acting Badly" and "Smut Busters," which complete his Santa Fe Trilogy; the story collection "Sand and other Flash Fiction;" the novel "Bookwhacked: Authors Crazed to Save the World;" and "Dedicated Lives: Talks With Those Helping Others." He also has published books on bird-watching and do-it-yourself upholstering. Before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1995, his wife and he ran a high-tech marketing-communications business from their home in Palo Alto, California.