Jonathan Sant­lofer is an artist and USA Today best­selling author. Jonathan has received two Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts grants, was a Vis­it­ing Artist at the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my In Rome, serves on the board of Yad­do, and found­ed the Cen­ter For Fiction’s Crime Fic­tion Acad­e­my. His art has been exhib­it­ed world­wide, includ­ing in New York City’s Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art.