Mike Strickland has made a career out of writing everything from marketing copy and finance articles to technical documentation and mobile app messages—and even twenty thousand science fiction-themed trivia questions. Other jobs he's been paid to do include scuba diver, navigator, call center representative, user experience designer, and science fiction author. His love of words began with fantasy and sci-fi, where it has now brought him full circle. After a long hiatus from fiction, Mike reignited his writing career by earning a master’s degree in creative writing from Western Colorado University’s Genre Fiction program and winning the Writers of the Future Contest.

His award-winning speculative fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the bestselling anthology Writers of the Future Volume 42, Requiem: Anthology of the Undead (WordFire Press), Cast of Wonders, Amazing Stories, and elsewhere. He’s published hundreds of nonfiction articles in the Los Angeles Times, Disney.com, the Travel Channel, AOL, and many others.

Mike currently lives and writes in a Denver, Colorado suburb, but other places he’s called home include San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, DC, Japan, Honduras, an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, and even a 1973 Volkswagen Squareback. He's not sure if this itinerant lifestyle emerged from his love of travel or vice versa, but his wanderings have undeniably inspired his writing.