Michael Poore is the author of the novel Up Jumps the Devil (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2012). His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, AGNI, Fiction, and The Pinch, as well as The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 and The Year’s Best Science Fiction #27. He lives in northwest Indiana with his wife, writer Janine Harrison, and their daughter, and is a member of the Indiana Writers’ Consortium. (updated 4/2015)