Michael Wiley is the author of The Last Striptease (St. Martin's Press), which won the Private Eye Writers of America and St. Martin's Press prize for best first private eye novel in 2006.

Michael grew up in Chicago and has lived and worked in the neighborhoods and on the streets where he sets his Kozmarski mysteries. He now teaches literature at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. As part of this other life, he has published books on Romantic Geography (Macmillan-St. Martin's Press) and Romantic Migrations (Palgrave Macmillan). No one shot at him when he was writing either of them.