Sparrow lives in a doublewide trailer in Phoenicia, New York with his wife Violet Snow. He enjoys cooking potato-ginger-bok choy stew. Sparrow is the author of five books, the most recent being The Double Dream of Spring: A Peg Sluice Mystery (cowritten with Mike Topp). His app, “Fake Wisdom,” is available on iTunes. (There's a 30 day free trial.) Sparrow plays flutophone in the antinomian pop group Foamola. Follow him on Twitter @sparrow14.