Michael McBride is the author of the novels Bloodletting, Burial Ground, Innocents Lost, Predatory Instinct, The Coyote, The Infected, Vector Borne, and the God's End Trilogy and the novellas Blindspot, Brood XIX, F9, IMMUN3, Remains, Snowblind, The Calm Before the Swarm, Xibalba, and Zero. His short fiction has been featured in Cemetery Dance, Dark Discoveries, Dark Wisdom, Shocklines, and the collection Quiet, Keeps to Himself. He lives in Avalanche Country with his wife and children.