Michel Sauret is the winner of the International Book Awards and a finalist int he USA Book News Awards, Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Book Excellence Awards. He is also the winner of the Army Journalist of the Year Award for his journalism in Iraq in 2008, and the recipient of several Scoop Brumfield and Keith L. Ware military journalism awards. Michel published his first novel at the age of 18, and earned a bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh. He was born in Rome, Italy, but still considers himself a Pittsburgher at heart.