The Healer (35 page)

M
ICHAEL
B
LUMLEIN
is the author of
The Movement of Mountains
(St. Martin's Press, 1987) and
X,Y
(Dell, 1993), as well as the award-winning story collection
The Brains of Rats
(Scream Press, 1990, rereleased by Dell in 1997). A frequent contributor to the
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
and
Interzone
, his short stories have been anthologized many times, including several appearances in the prestigious
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Annual Collection
and
The Year's Best Science Fiction.
He has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award and twice for the Bram Stoker Award. He has written for the stage and for film. His novel
X,Y
was recently made into a movie. In addition to writing, Dr. Blumlein practices and teaches medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.