An O. Henry Award short story writer, Thomas Fox Averill is Professor Emeritus of English at Washburn University, where he taught creative writing for 37 years. He has published two story collections, two works of nonfiction, and five novels. His most recent book, Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in February of 2018, and is made up entirely of fictional diaries, letters, drawings, and other documents that tell the story of an unconventional 19^th-century woman who makes important fossil discoveries as an amateur scientist.