Lowell Mick White is the author of eight books: novels Normal School and Professed and Burnt House and That Demon Life, the story collections Long Time Ago Good and The Messes We Make of Our Lives, and the creative writing texts Answers Without Questions and Writing Resilience Resistance. A winner of the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he received his PhD from Texas A&M University.