Bio: Michael H. Payne lives along the Pacific coast south of Los Angeles, clerks at the local library, plays guitar and sings at the local Catholic church, and hosts a Saturday morning radio program at the local university--see http://www.kuci.org/~mpayne for more info on that. His first novel, The Blood Jaguar, is still available from Tor Books, his on-line comic strip Terebinth posts a new page every Thursday at http://www.pandora.xepher.net/terebinth, and the stories he writes and draws about a group of harvest mice appear in the New Horizons anthology published by Shanda Fantasy Arts.