Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and musician. His novels have been named on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Book of the Month selections. He wrote the screen adaptations for two of his novels, Desperation Road, a top ten international release on Netflix, and The Fighter, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark, hailed by The New York Times as "an answered prayer of style and substance." With his band The Smokes, Smith recorded the EP Lostville, produced by Grammy nominee Jimbo Mathus.