Greg Schwipps was raised on a working farm in Milan, Indiana. He received an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His essays and short fiction can be found in the collections Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers, and Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology. His first novel, What This River Keeps (Indiana University Press) won the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award in the Emerging Writer category. What This River Keeps was one of thirteen titles named to the Next Indiana Bookshelf, an honor celebrating the state’s bicentennial. Other books include Fishing For Dummies, 3rd Edition, and Fishing For Dummies, 2nd Edition (coauthor). Currently a Professor of English at DePauw University, Greg and his wife live with their two sons in Greencastle, Indiana.