about c. bard cole C. Bard Cole is the author of Briefly Told Lives (St. Martin's Press) and a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Alabama. In addition to his own writing projects, Bard is currently putting together a multi-author anthology, The Collected Stories of Michael Martone, consisting of various writers' recollections of anecdotes told by fiction writer and teacher Michael Martone. More information about the project can be found here. Bard can be contacted through the email address bard@cbardcole.com.