A native Californian, Don Meredith has journeyed on five continents and told his tales in numerous journals, among them Salon.com, Image, The Texas Review, and several anthologies including Lonely Planet's just published TALES FROM NOWHERE. Meredith is the winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, and twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. A confirmed expatriate, he has lived on a Dalmatian island, a Tuscan farm, and for a dozen years on an island off the East African coast. He currently resides in Malindi, Kenya. His most recent book is WHERE THE TIGERS WERE: TRAVELS THROUGH LITERARY LANDSCAPES, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.