Michael Paul Kauzlarich spent more than twenty-five years as a family physician before discovering that the same instincts that helped him care for people could also help him write about them. Through essays and storytelling, he explores family, memory, work, food, and the everyday absurdities of life—the small details that reveal how much we all have in common.

When he’s not writing stories, he’s producing synth-pop music, baking something that makes the house smell like childhood, or drinking coffee strong enough to stand a spoon in.

He lives in the mountains of East Tennessee with his husband and a suspiciously indifferent cat.

Silly is his first book. It probably won’t be his last.