Michael Bailey is a multi-award-winning writer, editor, and book designer, and the recipient of over two dozen literary accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, Benjamin Franklin Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, and Independent Publisher Book Award. His nonlinear novels include PALINDROME HANNAH, PHOENIX ROSE, and PSYCHOTROPIC DRAGON, and he has published two short story and poetry collections, SCALES AND PETALS, and INKBLOTS AND BLOOD SPOTS, as well as ENSO, children's book. He has created anthologies such as QUALIA NOUS, THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, four volumes of CHIRAL MAD, YOU HUMAN, ADAM'S LADDER, and a series of illustrated books.