About the Author

Tony Rogers graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Yale and received a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has practiced law on Wall Street, played jazz guitar professionally, and directed a veterans’ hospital. His literary awards include the Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for a collection of short stories, first runner-up and two-time finalist in the Texas Review Press novella con­test, and semi-finalist in the Quarterly West novella contest. His work has been published in journals such as Pleiades, Thema, North Dakota Quarterly, Worcester Review, the Boston Globe Magazine, and many others. The Execution of Richard Sturgis, As Told by His Son, Colin, is the winner of the inaugural Dorothy and Wedel Nilsen Prize for a First Novel, an annual, national competition open to U.S. residents with a completed manuscript in English who have not yet published a full-length fiction novel or novella. Rogers lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife Tamara.