***TITLE 13 IS A POWELL'S STAFF PICK*** TITLE 13 has been named a "Best Book of 2018" by the Emerging Writers Network and is a Literati Bookstore bestseller! "Affecting and inventively funny... Ferro's work is an eclectic mélange." ​— Kirkus Reviews "A wonderful experience and a terribly compelling character study... sometimes fun, sometimes dark. For a first-time novelist, (Ferro is) very knowing about the emotional territory of life. A very, very ambitious book." ​—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune Michael A. Ferro's debut novel, TITLE 13, was published by Harvard Square Editions in February 2018. He was named as a finalist by Glimmer Train for their New Writers Award, won the Jim Cash Creative Writing Award for Fiction, and been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Michael’s writing has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Juked, Monkeybicycle, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, Heavy Feather Review, BULL: Men's Fiction, Crack the Spine, Vulture, Entropy, Splitsider, Duende, Fiction Writers Review, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. Born and bred in Detroit, Michael has lived, worked, and written throughout the American Midwest. He's not a big fan of other Midwests. Additional information can be found at: www.michaelaferro.com.