Phillip Arrington was born in Greensboro, NC, and has taught English, writing, and literature at Eastern Michigan University since l984 and has recently retired to write full time--and loves it. He has published articles in a number of scholarly journals as well as a previous book, Rhetoric's Agons, an e-novel, The Serpent's Sage, available at CreateSpace and Amazon.com, and his most recent non-fiction book, Eloquence Divine--In Search of God's Rhetoric, from Cascade Books. He's currently looking for literary agents for his two most recent novels, The Eulogist, and Girl with a Cat (Phillip has three cats himself), and is at work on two other novels. For more, visit philorhetor.com