Joseph Allen Boone is the author of three books of nonfiction and the libretto for the musical CONMAN, based on Melville's novel The Confidence-Man. He has recently published six short stories, one of which received Third Prize in the 2018 Hackney competition, and finished a novel that was the only adult novel among finalists in for the 2018 Leapfrog Fiction competition and that has just been long listed for the Beverly Prize.