About the Author

B.L. Makiefsky spent his formative years living an itinerant life that included picking cherries in the Hood River Valley, harvesting hemp in Iowa, working construction in California, reporting news in west Michigan, crisscrossing the country on a motorcycle, hopping trains, and hitchhiking. Since the initial publication of Fathers and Sons, his work has appeared in several literary magazines and journals. For a listing of the author's other work, go to blmakiefsky.com.