The Master of Patina

Miles Harvey is assistant professor of English at DePaul University. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Fiction, AGNI, The Sun, The Sonora Review, Nimrod, and other publications. His nonfiction includes The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House, 2000) and Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America (Random House, 2008). His website is www.milesharvey.com. (updated 4/2011)