Michael Braswell is professor emeritus from East Tennessee State University and a former prison psychologist who taught courses on ethics and justice, human relations and peacemaking. He has published books on justice issues as well as several short story collections and two novels. His poetry and fiction have been published in a variety of publications including Red Dirt Forum, Literary Heist, Foreshadow, Feed the Holy, and Mobius. His most recent books are When Jesus Came to the Cracker Barrel, Gracious Plenty and Morality Stories (5th ed.).