J Michael NealJ. Michael Neal lives in Minneapolis where he owns a house and in turn is owned by three cats. His passions are history, fantasy and science fiction, role playing, prog rock, sports, good liquor and especially the Gopher women's hockey team. Unproducive at home he works primarily from various restaurants around the Twin Cities. His favorite authors include Guy Gavriel Kay, Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Alistair Reynolds. He has been published in By Polaris Bright, an anthology from the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers. His story Living After Noon won the Open Division of the 2013 Minnesota Geek Partnership Society Writer's Contest, and his story The Love of His Life will be published in an upcoming issue of Tales of the Unanticipated. Read More Read Less