Donald R. Burleson has published over twenty books (some fiction and some nonfiction), hundreds of articles, and over a hundred short stories. In the fiction field he is a horror writer having produced both novels and collections of short stories, many of the latter appearing in numerous major anthologies. In the nonfiction field he has written articles and books on literary criticism (most of it on the subject of his doctoral dissertation: the American writer H. P. Lovecraft) and books in the field of UFO studies, having served for many years as State Director, for New Mexico (where he and his wife live), of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, for which he is an exam-certified field investigator. Dr. Burleson is a professional mathematician, having retired from full-time teaching in the mathematics department at Eastern New Mexico University at Roswell but continuing to teach there part-time; he does mathematical research in the area of matrix theory. He holds master's degrees in both mathematics and English, and a Ph.D. in English literature. His hobbies are chess, jazz drumming, solving Sudoku and diagramless crosswords, languages, and cooking. He and his wife Mollie met in 1979 at a horror convention in Rhode Island. Burleson has two sons and a stepson and daughter-in-law, and a cat named Schroedie, after Schrodinger's Cat in quantum theory.