Tom Piazza

Tom Piazza, a longtime resident of New Orleans, is the author of seven previous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the widely acclaimed novel My Cold War and the recent Understanding Jazz. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, he has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship in Fiction, and he won a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey.