Poet and novelist Lou Dischler grew up in the Cajun country of Louisiana and graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude in 1979, the year he moved to Spartanburg. As a former senior scientist with Milliken Research, and as an independent inventor, he holds some one hundred patents worldwide. In 2004 he again got the writing bug--this after a hiatus of more than thirty years.

He still fondly recalls his first rejection all those years ago--from Michael O'Donoghue, editor of National Lampoon--which said, "God will do No. 2 on your tennis shoes."

Hub City published Lou's award-winning poem, "Autobiography of an Innocent man," in its Still Home anthology, which he read aloud in front of an audience of 400 in the Harris-Teeter Theatre at Hub City's 10th anniversary celebration, "Hub City's Greatest Hits" in 2005. His short story, "Lola's Prayer," is the lead story in Hub City's newest title, Expecting Goodness & Other Stories, edited by C. Michael Curtis.

Hub City Press will publish Lou's novel, My Only Sunshine, in hardback in fall 2010.  He has written everything from Southern gothic to science fiction, to edgy young adult.