Christian Kiefer is the author of the novels The Infinite Tides (Bloomsbury, 2013) and The Animals (Liveright, 2015) and has been an active songwriter, musician, and poet for a number of years. His work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Santa Monica Review, and Catamaran Literary Reader amongst others. He serves on the faculty of American River College in Sacramento and lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada with his family.