Michael Raleigh’s new novel The Conjurer’s Boy was praised for its “beautifully modulated undercurrent of subtle fantasy” by The Midwest Review. He has received the Eugene Izzi award for crime fiction and four Illinois Arts Council awards for fiction. Michael is the author of seven previous novels, including In the Castle of the Flynns. He teaches writing at DePaul University and lives in Chicago with his wife Katherine and his three children.