Steve Szilagyi
Ohio-born Steve Szilagyi (pronounced Sil-ah-jee) graduated with honors from Columbia University, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant. A painter and illustrator, Szilagyi has published drawings in New York magazine and other national publications. Photographing Fairies was his first novel.