Tad Bartlett was born in Ankara, Turkey, grew up in Selma, Alabama, and married into New Orleans, LA. He has no choice but to write. Tad is a 2010 finalist for the Shelby Foote Essay Prize in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. With his collaborator, J.Ed. Marston, he also has been on the short list for finalists in the novel category of the 2009 and 2010 Faulkner-Wisdom competitions. Tad is one of the founding members of the Peauxdunque Writers’ Alliance, a multi-genre writers group formed under the auspices of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s Words & Music Writers’ Alliance. He is currently working on a series of poems entitled The Oil Wars. Tad will present two of these poems at the Writers’ Alliance session, Wednesday afternoon, November 17. In his day job, he practices law, usually on the margins of those same oil wars.