Evan Balkan teaches at the Community College of Baltimore County and is an instructor in the Teaching Writing graduate program at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a novel, Spitfire, and many short stories and essays.

Balkan never flinches from exploring the moral complexity of the choices his characters make. This deeply touching story moves seamlessly between the past and the present, the truth and the need to hide it, and all the while Balkan captivates us with the beauty of his prose." - Ed Perlman "From the moment Lee walks onto the first page of this irresistible novel, and into Lilly's life, you know things are headed south. At play here are notions of escaping and returning as acts of reclamation of one's own independence and identity, guided by a masterful storyteller." - Gregg Wilhelm

Evan Balkan teaches at the Community College of Baltimore County and is an instructor in the Teaching Writing graduate program at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a novel, Spitfire, and many short stories and essays.

Balkan never flinches from exploring the moral complexity of the choices his characters make. This deeply touching story moves seamlessly between the past and the present, the truth and the need to hide it, and all the while Balkan captivates us with the beauty of his prose." - Ed Perlman "From the moment Lee walks onto the first page of this irresistible novel, and into Lilly's life, you know things are headed south. At play here are notions of escaping and returning as acts of reclamation of one's own independence and identity, guided by a masterful storyteller." - Gregg Wilhelm

Evan Balkan teaches at the Community College of Baltimore County and is an instructor in the Teaching Writing graduate program at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a novel, Spitfire, and many short stories and essays.

Balkan never flinches from exploring the moral complexity of the choices his characters make. This deeply touching story moves seamlessly between the past and the present, the truth and the need to hide it, and all the while Balkan captivates us with the beauty of his prose." - Ed Perlman "From the moment Lee walks onto the first page of this irresistible novel, and into Lilly's life, you know things are headed south. At play here are notions of escaping and returning as acts of reclamation of one's own independence and identity, guided by a masterful storyteller." - Gregg Wilhelm