About the Author

ALEX IRVINE is the author of the novels The Narrows; The Life of Riley; One King, One Soldier; and A Scattering of Jades. His short fiction, published in Salon, Vestal Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Trampoline, and elsewhere, is collected in Unintended Consequences and Pictures from an Expedition. He has also written tie-in novels (Batman: Inferno, The Ultimates: Against All Enemies), comic books (Hellstorm: Son of Satan), and online narratives. He has won the Locus, Crawford, and IHG awards for his fiction, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the World Fantasy Award. His fiction has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Hebrew, Russian, and Chinese. In 2005, he was awarded the New England Press Association’s top prize for investigative journalism, and that same year was part of a writing team that won a Webby and the International Game Developers Association Innovation Award. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine.


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