A grad­u­ate of The Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty and Ver­mont Law School, Joel Bur­cat has writ­ten short sto­ries for The Mon­tre­al Review, Kalei­do­scope, Diverse Voic­es Quar­ter­ly, the North­ern Appalachia Review, and antholo­gies, among oth­ers. Before becom­ing a full-time author, he was an envi­ron­men­tal lawyer. He worked as an Assis­tant Attor­ney Gen­er­al for the Pa. Dept. of Envi­ron­men­tal Resources and was in pri­vate prac­tice. His first three nov­els were envi­ron­men­tal legal thrillers, includ­ing Strange Fire, a thriller about frack­ing for nat­ur­al gas. Reap the Wind, his new cli­mate change nov­el about three lawyers flee­ing a hur­ri­cane hit­ting Hous­ton, is his fourth nov­el. He lives in Har­ris­burg, Penn­syl­va­nia. https://​joel​bur​cat​.com/