Frank Tavares is the author of the collection, The Man Who Built Boxes and Other Stories (Bacon Press Books, 2013). Most, however, know him by his familiar voice — the fellow who delivered hundreds of thousands of NPR funding credits at the end of all national news programs through the fall of 2013. Tavares’s short stories have appeared in a variety of literary venues including Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, Story Quarterly, G.W. Review,and Tales of the Talisman.