Mark Mustian is the author of the novels The Return and The Gendarme, the latter a finalist for the Dayton International Literary Peace Prize and shortlisted for the Saroyan International Award for Writing. It won the Florida Gold Book Award for Fiction and has been published in ten languages. The founder of the Word of South Festival of Literature and Music in Tallahassee, Florida, his new novel, Boy With Wings, will be published in 2025. Mark is also the president of Nabors, Giblin & Nickerson, P.A., one of the largest local government law firms in Florida.