Mike Strickland is an award-winning speculative fiction author whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in the bestselling anthology Writers of the Future (Vol. 42), Cast of Wonders, Amazing Stories, Cosmic Daffodil, and elsewhere. He’s published hundreds of nonfiction articles in the Los Angeles Times, Disney.com, the Travel Channel, and others, and he wrote twenty thousand science fiction-themed trivia questions for a popular game company. Mike earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Western Colorado University’s Genre Fiction program, and he studied screenwriting at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Mike lives in Colorado and writes about the writing craft at www.strick.land.