The Chicken Hanger

About The Author

223 Ben Rehder is a freelance writer, novelist, and outdoors enthusiast who lives with his wife near Austin, where he was born and raised. He attended The University of Texas, where he received a bachelor’s degree in English, while simultaneously pursuing a career as an advertising copywriter. Rehder’s love of the outdoors has influenced much of his writing, including his Blanco County comic mysteries revolving around a Texas game warden and a colorful cast of rural characters. Novels from that six-book series made bestof -the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream. Buck Fever, the first in the series, was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Living all his life in Texas, Rehder has had a front-row seat for the ongoing culture wars surrounding illegal immigration. In The Chicken Hanger, Rehder explores from several perspectives the often symbiotic—and sometimes tumultuous—relationship between undocumented workers and U.S. employers and citizens. Rehder’s nonfiction articles and essays have appeared in Newsweek, Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine, Texas Co­op Power, and the San Antonio Express­ News, covering topics ranging from hunting laws to pit bulls to healthcare reform. He has had one short story published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. 224 225 ...