Eric D. Lehman is the author or editor of twenty books, including New England at 400, IBPA finalist Homegrown Terror, The Quotable New Englander, Connecticut Vanguards, A History of Connecticut Wine, Literary Connecticut, A History of Connecticut Food, The Insiders Guide to Connecticut, Pushcart-nominated Afoot in Connecticut, and Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity, which was chosen as an ALA university press book of the year and won the Victorian Society of America award in 2014. His novella Shadows of Paris was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, won the 2016 silver medal in romance from Foreword Review, and won novella of the year from the Next Generation Independent Book Awards. He is an associate professor at the Universityof Bridgeport and his fiction, travel stories, reviews, and essays have been published in a wide variety of journals and magazines, from The Wayfarer to Estuary. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, author Amy Nawrocki, and their two cats.