A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (25 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Bishop is the author of the Nebula Award-winning novel
No Enemy But Time
, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award-winning novel
Unicorn Mountain
, the Shirley Jackson Award-winning short story, “The Pile” (based on notes left behind on his late son Jamie’s computer), and several other novels and story collections, including
The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Retrospective
, edited by Michael H. Hutchins. He also writes poetry and criticism, and has edited the acclaimed anthologies
Light Years and Dark
, three volumes of the annual Nebula Awards collections, and, more recently,
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-Five Imaginative Tales About the Christ
, and, with Steven Utley,
Passing for Human
. Soon to appear is his novel for young persons,
Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls
, dedicated to the Bishops’ exemplary grandchildren, Annabel English Loftin and Joel Bridger Loftin. Michael Bishop lives in Pine Mountain, Georgia, with his wife, Jeri, a retired elementary school counselor who is now an avid gardener and yoga practitioner. They share their house, Bluestone Homestead, with far too many books.