REVIEWS
"Michael Keith, a master of the near normal and bizarre, holds you in the grip of each story -- scarily when not tenderly -- leaving you to think of his characters long after your visit has ended. And always looking forward to more." –– Kathleen Kelley Reardon, author of Shadow Campus and correspondent for The Huffington Post.

"A gripping assortment of tales featuring, among other things, a dangerous, paranoid professor, an ominous military medal, and a magical Morrocan tree. The Collector of Tears is another first-rate story collection from Michael C. Keith, a talented writer at the very height of his powers." –– Nicholas Litchfield, Lowestoft Chronicle

"We are surprised, shocked, elated, and yes, sometimes even sad, when we enter the different worlds and into the lives of the characters in Keith's fiction. One thing is for certain, we are never disappointed."  –– Jeffrey Miller, Ice Cream Headache

ABOUT MICHAEL C. KEITH
Michael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place (Algonquin Books)––a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 27 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag’s Object, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recline, Euphony, The Loneliness Channel, Pings and All the Noise in the Room.

He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize several times, a PEN/O’Henry Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award, an IPPY Award 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.

Visit Michael C. Keith's website: http://www.michaelckeith.com