Michael Poore s work has appeared in the Southern Review, the Carolina Quarterly, Hayden s Ferry Review, Fiction, StoryQuarterly, and Glimmer Train and has been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. His 2009 story Blood Dauber, written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka, appeared in Asimov s and has been nominated for the prestigious Sturgeon Award. It also won the Reader s Choice Award and was selected for inclusion in the 2010 Year s Best Science Fiction anthology. Up Jumps the Devil is his first novel.