Art Edwards's second novel, Ghost Notes, and his first solo CD, Songs from Memory, were released in 2008 on Defunct Press.

Art published his first novel, Stuck Outside of Phoenix, in 2003. The book received several positive reviews, and it was nominated for the Star Program, a marketing support program offered to select iUniverse titles that sell at least 500 copies. In 2008, Art reissued Stuck Outside of Phoenix on Defunct Press.

Art received a merit scholarship to attend the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing program, graduating in 2002.

Art co-founded the Refreshments, a Tempe, Arizona-based rock band that recorded two albums for Mercury Records in the 1990s. The band's hit single, "Banditos,” rose to number eleven on the alternative radio charts in 1996, and the band wrote and recorded the theme song for the Fox television series King of the Hill.

Art lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Raquel.