ANDY PLATTNER is the author of Winter Money, which received the 1996 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He has published three other books of literary fiction: A Marriage of Convenience, Of...view moreANDY PLATTNER is the author of Winter Money, which received the 1996 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He has published three other books of literary fiction: A Marriage of Convenience, Offerings from a Rust Belt Jockey, and Dixie Luck, stories and the novella Terminal. His fiction has earned two gold medals from the Faulkner Society, the Dzanc Mid-Career Novel Prize, a Henfield Prize, the Ferrol Sams Fiction Award, the Castleton-Lyons Book Award and a silver medal in literary fiction from the Independent Book Publishers' Awards.view less