F. Jay Fuller has done graduate work in the Phenomenology of Religion and lives in the mountains of northern California. He's been shot, stabbed, hooked, punctured, cut, gouged, scorched, stung, bitten, swarmed, skunked, mobbed, and trampled. He's turned ankles, pulled muscles, torn tendons, split nails, broken bones, fallen off cliffs, fallen out of trees, fallen in rivers, been lost, lost skin, lost teeth, lost his keys, had poison oak, had ticks, endured giardia, suffered frostbite, caught cold, and caught hell. His writing has appeared in Black Lantern Publishing, DarkFire Fiction (UK), Midwest Coast Review, College and Research Libraries News, Library SoftwareReview, and CSU Chico's… Studies from the Herbarium.