About the Author

Sumner Wilson is a retired railroad trainman, switchman, and brakeman. He took up writing in motel rooms to bedevil time while waiting to "get out" on homebound trips. He is the author of the novels "Billy in the Lowground" and "The Hellbringers."

Wilson's short stories have appeared in Cappers, published in Big Muddy, a journal of Southeast Missouri State University and he's sold two dozen stories to Sterling/Mcfadden Publishing, Inc. He has been published multiple times in Frontier Tales, an online magazine of the Old West. He and his wife reside on the Gasconade River in the Missouri Ozarks, where many of his stories take place.