Michael Bailey is a multi-award-winning author, editor and publisher, and the recipient of over two dozen literary accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, Benjamin Franklin Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, Indie Book Award, International Book Award, and a handful of others. His nonlinear novels include PALINDROME HANNAH, PHOENIX ROSE, and a co-authored meta-novel called PSYCHOTROPIC DRAGON (co-illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, Daniele Serra, and Ty Scheuerman), and he has published two short story and poetry collections, SCALES AND PETALS, and INKBLOTS AND BLOOD SPOTS (illustrated by Daniele Serra and introduced by Douglas E. Winter).Through Written Backwards, an imprint of Dark Regions Press, he is responsible for producing works of psychological horror, dark sciencefiction, and speculative fiction, anthologies such as PELLUCID LUNACY,QUALIA NOUS, THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD (illustrated by GAK), three volumesof CHIRAL MAD (the last illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne and introducedby Chuck Palahniuk), a fiction collection by Paul Michael Andersoncalled BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN (illustrated by Pat R. Steiner andintroduced by Damien Angelica Walters), and ALLEVON, a series ofillustrated books that include Gene O'Neill's novella AT THE LAZY K(illustrated by L.A. Spooner and introduced by Rena Mason), and acollection of zombie novelettes by Scott Edelman called LIARS, FAKERS,AND THE DEAD WHO EAT THEM (illustrated by Daniele Serra and introducedby Brian Keene). Also under the Written Backwards imprint is The CalWild Chronicles, a 4-book series by Gene O'Neill (illustrated by OrionZangara), a magnum opus including THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. ZACH, THEBURDEN OF INDIGO, THE NEAR FUTURE, and THE FAR FUTURE.