Skin Deep

Gary Braver is the pen name of Gary Goshgarian, the bestselling author of six critically acclaimed suspense novels: three under his own name (Atlantis Fire, Rough Beast, and The Stone Circle) and three under his pen name (Elixir, Gray Matter, and Flashback). Flashback is the only thriller to have won a prestigious Massachusetts Book Award (2006). He is also the author of five popular textbooks on creative writing. He teaches fiction writing as well as courses in popular literature as a professor English at Northeastern University. he has taught fiction-writing workshops throughout the united states and Europe for more than twenty years. He lives with his family in Arlington, Massachusetts.