Fred­er­ic Petro­vsky’s first nov­el, Frank, was pub­lished by AOL Time Warn­er in 2001 and won the imprint­’s inau­gur­al Read­ers’ Choice award. His nov­els include The Immi­grant, Don’t be Cru­el, The Clin­ton Diaries, and Escape from Yes­ter­day. He has also writ­ten a book of poet­ry, If Only for Love. His work has appeared in Mid­stream, Arrive, and The Ritz-Carl­ton Mag­a­zine. He holds an MFA in cre­ative writ­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona. Petro­vsky is a native of Mem­phis, Ten­nessee, and cur­rent­ly lives in Arizona.