Michael Blumlein is the author of the novels The Movement of Mountains, X,Y and The Healer, as well as the short story collection The Brains of Rats. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards and his short fiction has been anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year's Best Science Fiction series. He has written for the stage and for film. He lives in San Francisco, where practices and teaches medicine at UCSF.