JOHNNY D. ILES is the author of Requiem for the Kid on Grand Piano (WSC Press) and a WSC alumnus who now resides in Scottsbluff, Nebraska— not far from those beautiful Rocky Mountains. He has traded his Eastern Nebraska life of strippers, women with issues, and other debauchery for a quiet life of watching bison and elk graze and collecting fossils and artifacts. When not off in some far-flung rock formation with his cowgirl, he is at home with his other seductress: jazz. He still cannot get enough of jazz.