Alexander Charles McAulay received his M.A. in fiction in 1998. The title of his thesis was The Kingdom and Other Stories. He went on to receive an M.A. in literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. McAulay’s teen novel Bad Girls was published by MTV/Pocket books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) and has been optioned for a movie. His second novel Lost Summer was also published by MTV, and his novel Oblivion Road is forthcoming. Now living in Los Angeles, McAulay is also an indie-rock musician who has recorded several albums under the name Charles Douglas. For more information, go to http://www.alexmcaulay.com/