About the Author

Ohio‑born Steve Szilagyi (pronounced Sil‑ah‑jee) graduated with honors from Columbia University, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant. A painter and illustrator, Szilagyi has published drawings in New York magazine and other national publications. Photographing Fairies was his first novel.