Hal Howland is the author of After Jerusalem: Short Fiction, The Human Drummer: Thoughts on the Life Percussive, Landini Cadence: A Rich Castillo Threesome (a finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a recipient of the 2012 Eric Hoffer Award for excellence in independent publishing), and The Sculpture Gardener: Short Fiction. The Sculpture Gardener won an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, and Howland's stories appear in volumes one and two of the Absolutely Amazing eBooks anthology Murder in Key West. Howland has released three award-winning,