F. JAY FULLER, author of Shadows in Winter, has done graduate work in the Phenomenology of Religion and lives in the Cascade Mountains of northern California. Apart from a lifetime of study in religion, philosophy, anthropology and natural history, 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 Empirical Magazine, The Best of Empirical 2012: Fiction & Poetry, Black Lantern Publishing, Dark Fire Fiction (UK), Midwest Coast Review, College and Research Libraries News, Library Software Review, California State University Chico's Studies from the Herbarium, and has written and hosted over 500 programs on popular astronomy for the NPR affiliate Northstate Public Radio, KCHO Chico/KFPR Redding.