Gregory Galloway is the author of the Alex Award-winning novel, As Simple As Snow, The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand, and the short story collection, Careful & Other Stories. His third novel, Just Thieves, was published in October 2021, Galloway, the son of a juvenile probation officer, was born and raised in the small, southeastern Iowa town of Keokuk, located near the confluence of the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers. Galloway graduated with MFAs in both fiction and poetry from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City. He worked at a downtown record store while attending college, a job driven by his longstanding interest in music. Galloway currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, with his wife.