DALE BAILEY is the author of seven books, including The End of the End of Everything and The Subterranean Season, which have received critical praise. His story Death and Suffrage was adapted for the Showtime television series Masters of Horror. His short work has received the Shirley Jackson Award and the International Horror Guild Award, has been nominated for the Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards, and has appeared in numerous best-of-the-year anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. He and his family reside in North Carolina.