Thomas C MalinTom Malin spent the first five years of his life in Adams County, and his family returned frequently to visit the quirky and loving relatives there. Fire Conditions honors a fictional Adams County that might have been.A former administrator at the Meical College of Wisconsin and USC Children's Hospital in LA, Tom was also a visiting professor in the US and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.His short stories have been published in the Kansas Quarterly, Rosebud, and others. He's a Jade Ring and Hal Prize winner. He's a member of Wisconsin Writers Association and attends workshops at Red Oak Writing Studio.Tom is married to his childhood sweetheart, Shelly, and has three adult children and six grandchildren. Read More Read Less