Ted Wojtasik is the chairman of the Creative Writing Department at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, NC. His first novel, No Strange Fire, was based upon the Amish barn fires in Big Valley of Pennsylvania. Collage is his second novel. He has published book reviews and short stories in various literary journals. He holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Twentieth-century American literature from the University of South Carolina.