Michael C. Lea taught himself to read at age two and has seldom been seen without a book since. He edited the critically-acclaimed superhero fiction anthology "POW!erful Tales" (Peryton Publishing, 2009), and is currently editing its sequel, "Beta City," as well as the cross-genre speculative anthology "Liminality." His fiction has been published in a number of small markets such as Escape Pod and M-Brane SF, and in many anthologies, including The Tangled Bank, Times of Trouble, and The Book of Exodi. Michael is also a screenwriter, currently working on an action script for Scorpio Studios. His screenplays have placed highly in prestigious competitions such as the Nicholl Fellowships, Scriptapalooza, the WriteMovies.com competition, the FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards, the American Gem Short Script Contest, the Screenwriting Expo, the StoryPros International contest and others. Michael studied Speculative Fiction Writing and Screenwriting at Gotham Writers' Workshop. He is also a practicing attorney. He lives in the southern U.S. with his wife and many, many pets.