In subsequent interviews, he has talked about how the time he spent on the Swahili islands of Lamu (off the Kenyan coast) and Zanzibar in East Africa helped shape his creation of the fictional island called Edgemere in his 2014 novel Song of the Shank.WritingsHis essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, Triquarterl