Donald Jacob Uitvlugt grew up in Western Michigan and now lives in Central Arkansas with his wife and dog. His short fiction has appeared in a number of print and online venues, including Necrotic Tissue, SpaceWesterns.com, and Renard's Menagerie, and the anthologies The Phantom Queen Awakes, Cinema Spec, and Silver Moon, Bloody Bullets. His short "Elevated State" placed third in ChiZine's "Enter the World of Filaria" contest. Find out more about his writing at http://haikufiction.blogspot.com.