Michael Blumlein, M.D. is the author of The Movement of Mountains and X, Y (recently made into a movie), as well as the award-winning story collection The Brains of Rats. He is a frequent contributor to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Interzone, and his short stories have been anthologized 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.